On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 04:23:45PM +0100, Frej Eriksson wrote: > I need to set up a backup solution for at least 10 linux machines, > probably more. We do not want do do any full system backups, we are only > interested in backing up a couple of directories on each machine. Mostly > /etc, directory containing database files and in some cases /home. Is > BackuPC suitable for this kind of backups?
Yes, perfectly. > The database files we are going to backup are from Oracle or MySQL, > approximate size of the data directory on each server is 60 GB. Would > you guys recommend BackupPC for this purpose? Would BackupPC be able to > handle incremental backups for these files in a safe and convenient way? I'd try to get some kind of incremental DB dump from these databases, then backup these. Backup of DB space directly is not a good idea since it usually leads to inconsistent databases. You should always use the databases facilities to e.g. take a nightly dump (which uses a transaction for consistency). HTH, Tino. -- www.quantenfeuerwerk.de www.spiritualdesign-chemnitz.de www.lebensraum11.de Tino Schwarze * Parkstraße 17h * 09120 Chemnitz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
