Le lundi 25 mars 2013 19:35:12, Daniel Farina a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner > > <ste...@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote: > >> Back when we used CVS for quite a few years I kept 7 day rolling > >> snapshots of the CVS repo, against just such a difficulty as this. But > >> we seem to be much better organized with infrastructure these days so I > >> haven't done that for a long time. > > > > well there is always room for improvement(and for learning from others) > > - but I agree that this proposal seems way overkill. If people think we > > should keep online "delayed" mirrors we certainly have the resources to > > do that on our own if we want though... > > What about rdiff-backup? I've set it up for personal use years ago > (via the handy open source bash script backupninja) years ago and it > has a pretty nice no-frills point-in-time, self-expiring, file-based > automatic backup program that works well with file synchronization > like rsync (I rdiff-backup to one disk and rsync the entire > rsync-backup output to another disk). I've enjoyed using it quite a > bit during my own personal-computer emergencies and thought the > maintenance required from me has been zero, and I have used it from > time to time to restore, proving it even works. Hardlinks can be used > to tag versions of a file-directory tree recursively relatively > compactly. > > It won't be as compact as a git-aware solution (since git tends to to > rewrite entire files, which will confuse file-based incremental > differential backup), but the amount of data we are talking about is > pretty small, and as far as a lowest-common-denominator tradeoff for > use in emergencies, I have to give it a lot of praise. The main > advantage it has here is it implements point-in-time recovery > operations that easy to use and actually seem to work. That said, > I've mostly done targeted recoveries rather than trying to recover > entire trees.
I have the same set up, and same feedback. -- Cédric Villemain +33 (0)6 20 30 22 52 http://2ndQuadrant.fr/ PostgreSQL: Support 24x7 - Développement, Expertise et Formation
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