Back to the original request - you could set up a second BackupPC host
(using ClientNameAlias to point to the real host) to do incrementals-only
(with rsync) every hour. However, as others have noted, it's a lot less
efficient to do that versus snapshots: rsync has to traverse the whole
client file system every hour looking for changes, while snapshot systems
do copy-on-write (ie: they process only the changes as they happen).
Craig
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Bzzzz <lazyvi...@gmx.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:12:25 -0500
> Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There is a missing piece in terms of recreating the
> > partitions/filesystems/raids to match the system you want to recreate,
>
> OMFG, ZE missing link ? ;-p)
>
> > unless you have already automated that with tuned kickstart files or
> > all of your systems are identical. The ReaR tool I mentioned in
> > another post will create a script to re-create an existing system.
>
> As servers structures are always identical, local daemons excepted, we
> use another way to do so:
> boot on a FAI server,
> install a minimal system, including rsync,
> restore the whole system using BPC,
> reboot,
> online & operational.
>
> This stays an exceptional procedure, as all servers hardware go through a
> 2 weeks burn-in before being put in production - most of the breakage
> coming from HDz &| SSDz.
>
> Just in case, partitions tables are extracted and dumped on long-term
> backup redundant servers and also printed to be inserted in our local
> paper documentation.
>
> > For Windows systems, I'd use Clonezilla images as the base, but that
> > does take extra time and disk space to maintain.
>
> The PITA of a few w$ systems will be definitely eradicated as of 2018-Q3.
>
> JY
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