Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-14 Thread Pavel Hofman
Jake Wilson napsal(a): On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:39 PM, John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com mailto:rouilj-backu...@renesys.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:14:13AM -0600, Jake Wilson wrote: Thanks for the replies, everyone. I have not tried the backup yet, so I

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-14 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 04/14 09:42 , Pavel Hofman wrote: We are using the trickle library modifier http://linux.die.net/man/1/trickle : Interesting. Thanks for posting that. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-13 Thread Jake Wilson
Thanks for the replies, everyone. I have not tried the backup yet, so I don't know what to expect. I just didn't want to try it on a whim without researching it a bit more. The servers are not just file servers. They run Oracle and proprietary data modeling software that do a lot of data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/13/2011 12:14 PM, Jake Wilson wrote: Thanks for the replies, everyone. I have not tried the backup yet, so I don't know what to expect. I just didn't want to try it on a whim without researching it a bit more. The servers are not just file servers. They run Oracle and proprietary data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/13/2011 11:14 AM, Jake Wilson wrote: Thanks for the replies, everyone. I have not tried the backup yet, so I don't know what to expect. I just didn't want to try it on a whim without researching it a bit more. The servers are not just file servers. They run Oracle and proprietary data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-13 Thread John Rouillard
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:14:13AM -0600, Jake Wilson wrote: Thanks for the replies, everyone. I have not tried the backup yet, so I don't know what to expect. I just didn't want to try it on a whim without researching it a bit more. The servers are not just file servers. They run Oracle

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-13 Thread Jake Wilson
Yes I'm planning on doing cold oracle backups before BackupPC does its thing. Thanks Jake Wilson On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:39 PM, John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:14:13AM -0600, Jake Wilson wrote: Thanks for the replies, everyone. I have not

[BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-12 Thread Jake Wilson
We have a production server on the network with several terabytes of data that needs to be backed up onto our BackupPC server. The problem is that the production server is in use most of the day. There is a lot of normal network traffic going in and out. I'm wondering what options there are for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-12 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jake Wilson wrote at about 17:06:55 -0600 on Tuesday, April 12, 2011: We have a production server on the network with several terabytes of data that needs to be backed up onto our BackupPC server. The problem is that the production server is in use most of the day. There is a lot of normal

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-12 Thread Timothy J Massey
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote on 04/12/2011 07:41:15 PM: Jake Wilson wrote at about 17:06:55 -0600 on Tuesday, April 12, 2011: We have a production server on the network with several terabytes of data that needs to be backed up onto our BackupPC server. The problem is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-12 Thread Timothy J Massey
Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote on 04/12/2011 10:13:11 PM: But give it a try first: unless that production server is a 600MHz machine with 512MB RAM and a single SATA spindle, you will most likely be fine (and if you *are* running like that, well, you have other problems! :)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up little by little or throttling the backup?

2011-04-12 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Timothy J Massey wrote at about 22:46:39 -0400 on Tuesday, April 12, 2011: Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote on 04/12/2011 10:13:11 PM: But give it a try first: unless that production server is a 600MHz machine with 512MB RAM and a single SATA spindle, you will most