----- "Loren M. Lang" <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason Boxman wrote: <snip> > > > > I don't want to backup the entire host hourly, as I do so nightly > anyway. > > Would I want to create an entirely new 'host' for handling this, or > would it make > > sense to finally investigate the branch feature of Dirvish, or some > other way? > > I create a separate vault per partition per server and, in some > cases, > multiple vaults per partition. I use xdev and exclude to ensure that > there is no overlap in backed up data. I recommend putting data that > is > backed up more often into it's own vault and just running dirvish on > that vault as appropriate. I have never looked into branches and am > not > sure when they would be used.
I did that initially, but found it annoying to do a full metal restore as I needed to sync over each partition instead of a single vault tree. (I don't have a build server, so I either restore from backup or reinstall. I prefer the former.) I suppose I could `cp -al` it to another local directory, then restore from that... What naming scheme are you using? I'm using foo.domain.net for my vaults. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
