On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:44:59AM -0500, Ken Long wrote:
> Second, I was thinking on this over the weekend and had come up with
> something similar to the suggestion below, however, I noticed you can
> get 800GB external USB drives now. Has anyone considered taking the
> external USB drive and rs
First, thanks to everyone who replied to my question the other day. I
saw some great suggestions to give me leads on things to try.
Second, I was thinking on this over the weekend and had come up with
something similar to the suggestion below, however, I noticed you can
get 800GB external USB dri
On 03/04 11:40 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> And if you are really, really paranoid, you might also want to
> consider the possibility of a bug in backuppc, your host OS, or
> disk media that will make your primary copy flawed and propagate
> to any other copies of it.
Having had backup software actua
Le Thursday 02 March 2006 19:19, Ken Long a écrit :
> I've been trying to search through this list and through google to
> figure out the answer to this question, but have not found a good answer
> yet.
>
We are using USB2 Disks for offsite storage with xfscopy.
Our BackupPC data is stored on a 1.
On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 11:26, Kris Boutilier wrote:
> > to the original poster, if you do decide to only do disk to
> > disk backups, make sure to remember that one of the things
> > you're protecting against is user error, where the backup
> > admin is the user. Make sure to protect yourself a
> -Original Message-
> From: Dan Pritts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 5:49 PM
> To: Kris Boutilier
> Cc: backuppc list
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Best software to backup
> BackupPC Server to tape
>
> On Fri, Mar 03, 200
Dan Pritts writes:
> An idea i had for offsites is to just run rsync against the raw device.
> rsync would need to be patched to allow this, and apparently rsync has
> some issues with very large files.
This should work well. However, rsync currently doesn't copy
device file contents, it just mk
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:59:24AM -0800, Kris Boutilier wrote:
> and efficiently handles hardlinks. However, unless you're already fully
> committed tape may not be the optimal soloution. A better approach may
> be to locally attach another stack of cheap 500Gb SATA drives, mirror
> do single fil
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:48:05PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Fundamentally, I think that the hard link approach is a very cool hack,
> > but i am hitting limits of it already, and my personal opinion is that a
> > different approach (probably a RDBMS) is called for to index the backend.
> > (n
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:55, Dan Pritts wrote:
> An idea i had for offsites is to just run rsync against the raw device.
> rsync would need to be patched to allow this, and apparently rsync has
> some issues with very large files.
I don't have time to test this on any scale right now, but this
ap
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken
Long
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:20 AM
> To: backuppc list
> Subject: [BackupPC-users] Best software to backup BackupPC Server to
tape
>
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> I have Backu
I should add that my disk hardware is slow - a hardware raid with 5400rpm
parallel ATA disks. I bought this particular raid because i was thinking
that the design goal for a disk-based backup system would be lots and
lots of space, and raid5 would make the 5400rpm disks fast enough.
Upgrading to
I'm working on the same problem. here's where i am. Look back
through the list archive, others are working on the same problem
in the last few weeks.
1) tried just pointing veritas netbackup at the backuppc disk.
veritas is fine with hard links, no problem there, but with even
150G used on my ba
I've been trying to search through this list and through google to
figure out the answer to this question, but have not found a good answer
yet.
I have BackupPC working great on a nice, large 2.4TB system and it's now
backing up almost everything in the company with a nice rotation set up.
That'
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