[SLUG] rdiff-backup
Wearing my I wish somebody had said this, useful, sharing cap and not my dragons and swords one I declare that, except for those interested in pages- n-pages of python stack traces or very simple systems, rdiff-backup is unmentionably awefull. I backup daily 4 systems with a couple of 100s G each. rdiff-backup does not play with other versions, the client and server machines are different, and rdiff-backup needs to be on both machines. Some work, some dont. All versions complained about obsolete modules. As you may expect, winter power fails during the backup happened. This resulted in chaos that took significant manual input to fix. http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups.html shows rsync is easy and justworks(tm) Here is a snip of my rsync backup script: It uses 1 backup+30 tinybits of space for the backup A tiny bit of logic to avoid regetting everything after a failure would help ie don't cycle and copy unless all suceeded #! /bin/bash DAY=`date +%a` Cycle all the daily backups rm -fr /backup/tigger.etc.30 rm -fr /backup/tigger.home.30 rm -fr /backup/tigger.mail.30 rm -fr /backup/tigger.root.30 ... for (( i=29 ; i ; i-- )) do let j=$i+1 if [ -d /backup/tigger.etc.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.etc.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.etc.$i /backup/tigger.etc.$j fi if [ -d /backup/tigger.home.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.home.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.home.$i /backup/tigger.home.$j fi if [ -d /backup/tigger.mail.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.mail.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.mail.$i /backup/tigger.mail.$j fi if [ -d /backup/tigger.root.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.root.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.root.$i /backup/tigger.root.$j fi ... done tigger echo tigger /tmp/mail date /tmp/mail rsync -xa -e ssh --exclude=.gvfs --delete --link-dest=/backup/tigger.home.2 tigger:/home/ /backup/tigger.home.1 rsync -xa -e ssh --exclude=.gvfs --delete --link-dest=/backup/tigger.root.2 tigger:/root/ /backup/tigger.root.1 rsync -xa -e ssh --delete --link-dest=/backup/tigger.etc.2 tigger:/etc//backup/tigger.etc.1 rsync -xa -e ssh --delete --link-dest=/backup/tigger.mail.2 tigger:/var/spool/mail/ /backup/tigger.mail.1 ssh tigger df -h | grep '^/dev' /tmp/mail ... James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff-backup
2009/6/4 jam j...@tigger.ws: Wearing my I wish somebody had said this, useful, sharing cap and not my dragons and swords one I declare that, except for those interested in pages- n-pages of python stack traces or very simple systems, rdiff-backup is unmentionably awefull. We are just starting to deploy Bacula after some examination. The matter with backups is not just to make them - but also to manage a catalog to help you find the right file when you have to restore things. #! /bin/bash DAY=`date +%a` Cycle all the daily backups rm -fr /backup/tigger.etc.30 rm -fr /backup/tigger.home.30 rm -fr /backup/tigger.mail.30 rm -fr /backup/tigger.root.30 ... for (( i=29 ; i ; i-- )) do let j=$i+1 if [ -d /backup/tigger.etc.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.etc.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.etc.$i /backup/tigger.etc.$j fi if [ -d /backup/tigger.home.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.home.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.home.$i /backup/tigger.home.$j fi if [ -d /backup/tigger.mail.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.mail.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.mail.$i /backup/tigger.mail.$j fi if [ -d /backup/tigger.root.$i ] [-d /backup/tigger.root.1 ]; then mv /backup/tigger.root.$i /backup/tigger.root.$j fi ... done Consider looking at savelog or logrotate. I'm not sure where savelog popped up from but it appears to be a script-friendly interface to one-off logrotates. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux-powered things
2009/6/4 Leslie Katz lesl...@ozemail.com.au I took the linked-to photo today. The thing gave me a giggle. Maybe it was already familiar to others. http://www.flickr.com/photos/23623...@n03/3594383552/ I've seen a few times some Mercedes four wheel drive (I think, it's been a while since) with a LINUX NSW license plate in the northern beaches. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rdiff-backup
2009/6/4 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: The matter with backups is not just to make them - but also to manage a catalog to help you find the right file when you have to restore things. On that note, you can use the rdiffWeb[0] tool to browse your rdiff-backup revisions and recover files. [0] http://www.rdiffweb.org/ Lindsay -- http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ (me) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux-powered things
Amos Shapira wrote: 2009/6/4 Leslie Katz lesl...@ozemail.com.au I took the linked-to photo today. The thing gave me a giggle. Maybe it was already familiar to others. http://www.flickr.com/photos/23623...@n03/3594383552/ I've seen a few times some Mercedes four wheel drive (I think, it's been a while since) with a LINUX NSW license plate in the northern beaches. --Amos Theres a GNU up the mountains on some black sporty thing. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] USB ports
I bought a huge backup drive and went to plug it in today and it kept mounting and unmounting it spawning windows along the way. Strange thing is I plugged the same drive into the rear of the computer and it now works correctly. Is it possible that they are two different types of USB port? Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] USB ports
Ken Foskey wrote: I bought a huge backup drive and went to plug it in today and it kept mounting and unmounting it spawning windows along the way. Strange thing is I plugged the same drive into the rear of the computer and it now works correctly. Is it possible that they are two different types of USB port? Sounds like the first port you plugged it into might not have enough power to run the usb hdd? I know some Apple notebooks (just off the top of my head) have slightly different power ratings for different usb ports on the same machine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: aptitude removal problem - no space left on device
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 15:56 +1000, Denis Crowdy wrote: cp: cannot copy a directory, `/', into itself, `/tmp/mkinitramfs_C18636/' This is extremely odd - looks like a maintainer script problem. [backports tends to have this sort of thing btw]. Uhm, I'd try to find the maintainer script in /var/lib/dpkg and fix it. Look at the kernel* package logs - you may find its fixed already and be able to copy the fixed one in by hand. Spot on Rob - thanks very much. Found a post (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-backports-modules-2.6.24/+bug/229535) where someone had simply deleted the .list and .postrm files so tried this, followed by aptitude purge and shazam, problem solved, happy new user. Thanks again! Denis -- Denis Crowdy Department of Contemporary Music Studies, Macquarie University +61 2 9850 6787 http://www.dcms.mq.edu.au http://motekulo.blogspot.com/ http://www.melanesianmusic.org CRICOS Provider No 2J This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of DCMS or Macquarie University. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux-powered things
Amos Shapira wrote: 2009/6/4 Leslie Katz lesl...@ozemail.com.au I took the linked-to photo today. The thing gave me a giggle. Maybe it was already familiar to others. http://www.flickr.com/photos/23623...@n03/3594383552/ I've seen a few times some Mercedes four wheel drive (I think, it's been a while since) with a LINUX NSW license plate in the northern beaches. I've seen that 4WD on my way down to Bondi Beach. Wonder who owns it... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] USB ports
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:33 +1000, David Gillies wrote: Ken Foskey wrote: I bought a huge backup drive and went to plug it in today and it kept mounting and unmounting it spawning windows along the way. Strange thing is I plugged the same drive into the rear of the computer and it now works correctly. Is it possible that they are two different types of USB port? Sounds like the first port you plugged it into might not have enough power to run the usb hdd? I know some Apple notebooks (just off the top of my head) have slightly different power ratings for different usb ports on the same machine. This is an external powered hard drive. So power should not be the problem. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
