John Madden wrote: > That still leaves full backups as a big issue (they take days to run) > and NetBackup has a solution for that: You run one full backup and store > it on disk somewhere and from then on, fulls are called "synthetic > fulls," where the incrementals are applied periodically in snapshot > fashion and "voila, you have a full backup." After that one full > backup, the only thing you ever run is incremental. This takes 2x your > disk, but it's manageable. > > <cid:part1.04020608.04080904@ucdavis.edu>
Our NBU admin runs multiple streams by the way which helped a lot. So the various "letters" of the cyrus hashing are each broken out into their own full backup. Example out of /var/cyrus/mail/ the subdir A-K are in one stream, L-Q in another, etc. I'm not an NBU admin so I dunno why this is more efficient but it worked great. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
