Is there a problem with using just rsync vs backupcc? I need to read
about backupcc and how easy it is to setup.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Burnash, James <jburn...@knight.com> wrote:
> I think the answer to that problem is to back up from a machine that has the 
> native Gluster client mount the data that needs to be backed up - that way 
> you don't have to worry about replicas and attributes.
>
> Of course this seems to indicate that you would need to restore the same way 
> ... but I'm not positive about that.
>
> James Burnash, Unix Engineering
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org 
> [mailto:gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org] On Behalf Of Mohit Anchlia
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 1:39 PM
> To: Sabuj Pattanayek; gluster-users@gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Backup Strategy
>
> One confusion I have is when maintaining multiple bricks on multiple
> physical volume and a replica also how do we do effective backups?
>
> So if I have 4 node glusterfs cluster and replica of 2 then how do I
> effectively do the backups such that I don't backup multiple copies or
> overwrite files when doing backups.
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Sabuj Pattanayek <sab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you want to do backup to disk then I highly recommend backuppc .
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> I would like to hear from experienced users of glusterFS about how
>>> they are currently doing backups. I am looking at solutions but not
>>> sure which one to use and how to effectively use them. First thing
>>> comes to my mind is using rsync.
>>>
>>> Please advice.
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