Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Nataraj wrote: >> > Does backupPC have the abilty to easily be configured so that each daily > incremental and each weekly full backup are stored on different drives, > i.e. to rotate drives based on your backup schedule and not just when a > drive fills up?  I thi

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-18 Thread Nataraj
On 12/16/2011 06:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Nilsson wrote: >> >>> >From the little I've read it seems to be very similar to BackupPC. >> >> I think the only thing they have in common is that they both use rsync as >> the transfer agent. > Well, they are

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Nilsson wrote: > > >> >From the little I've read it seems to be very similar to BackupPC. > > > I think the only thing they have in common is that they both use rsync as > the transfer agent. Well, they are both perl scripts... Backuppc just has more of

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nilsson
good info in this thread -but so far no mention of rsnapshot > > Any comment on it ? > we use rsnapshot. i think of it basically as a wrapper around rsync. it isn't a fully featured backup solution just on it's own, but it is a great tool. we have written a bash shell script wrapper around rsnapsh

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > OK, I'm getting ready to finally dig into replacing our backups.  Lots of > good info in this thread -but so far no mention of rsnapshot > > Any comment on it ?   Our environment is all Linux except for Mac desktops > which would like have a di

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-16 Thread Alan McKay
OK, I'm getting ready to finally dig into replacing our backups. Lots of good info in this thread -but so far no mention of rsnapshot Any comment on it ? Our environment is all Linux except for Mac desktops which would like have a different solution for backups. >From the little I've read it s

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Barry Brimer
>> Anyone have any experience with this, which just came to my attention >> >> http://www.arkeia.com/en/solutions/open-source-solutions I have used Arkeia for a few customers .. it works well. Do you have any specific questions about it? Barry ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Devin Reade
--On Friday, December 09, 2011 02:59:08 PM -0600 Les Mikesell wrote: > I doubt if it can match > the bandwidth efficiency of backuppc with rsync as the transport (not > sure - how does the bacula agent deal with growing files, or big files > with small changes?). There is a relatively new block-

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Friday, December 09, 2011 01:03:18 PM -0600 Les Mikesell > wrote: > >> I'll be happy if I never see a tape again. > > Likewise. > > Skipping forward to the present, I'm doing normal backups in Bacula > to virtual volumes on hard disk.  As

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Devin Reade
--On Friday, December 09, 2011 01:03:18 PM -0600 Les Mikesell wrote: > I'll be happy if I never see a tape again. Likewise. Skipping forward to the present, I'm doing normal backups in Bacula to virtual volumes on hard disk. As for offsite/archival backups, using the bacula add-on 'vchanger' a

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Friday, December 09, 2011 11:48:49 AM -0600 Les Mikesell > wrote: > >> Errr, what?   Amanda is a little cumbersome to set up, but it doesn't >> bite.  If gnutar works, amanda should work or tell you why. > > As I said, it's been at least

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Devin Reade
--On Friday, December 09, 2011 11:48:49 AM -0600 Les Mikesell wrote: > Errr, what? Amanda is a little cumbersome to set up, but it doesn't > bite. If gnutar works, amanda should work or tell you why. As I said, it's been at least 8 years since I dealt with Amanda. Going by memory, though, in

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Devin Reade wrote: > > Being bit by Arkeia (and previously Amanda and others) Errr, what? Amanda is a little cumbersome to set up, but it doesn't bite. If gnutar works, amanda should work or tell you why. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com __

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Devin Reade
--On Thursday, December 08, 2011 01:06:10 PM -0500 Alan McKay wrote: > Anyone have any experience with this, which just came to my attention > > http://www.arkeia.com/en/solutions/open-source-solutions Yes, I've used it (albiet about 8 years back or so), as well as many other solutions (both co

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Mikael Fridh
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:38 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/08/11 11:26 AM, Mikael Fridh wrote: >> For more redundancy and performance, add more ZFS boxes, do >> replication between them. > > what zfs replication is that?  last I heard, the only supported > replication was physical block replicat

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/08/11 11:26 AM, Mikael Fridh wrote: > For more redundancy and performance, add more ZFS boxes, do > replication between them. what zfs replication is that? last I heard, the only supported replication was physical block replication of the underlying device(s) (avs in solaris cluster, drbd

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Mikael Fridh
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, > and here is what I found : > - amanda > - bacula > - BackupPC > - FreeNAS > > Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun > Sto

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > > > I use backuppc, but find that in order to restore one has to be or know the > admin user password. > There appears to be no way to open this up to users to directly see and > restore from the file tree that it manages. You can delegate

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
> I use backuppc, but find that in order to restore one has to be or know > the admin user password. > There appears to be no way to open this up to users to directly see and > restore from the file tree that it manages. > > Huh? No. Users can do their own restores from the web interface with

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Rob Kampen
Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:31 AM, wrote: I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS You missed rsync. Rsync is another one-off approach where you have to roll

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
Anyone have any experience with this, which just came to my attention http://www.arkeia.com/en/solutions/open-source-solutions -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS >>> >>> You missed rsync. >> >> Rsync is another one-off approach where you hav

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:31 AM, wrote: >> >>> I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for >>> backups, >>> and here is what I found : >>> - amanda >>> - bacula >>> - BackupPC >>> - FreeNAS >> >> You missed rsync. > > Rsync is another one-off approach w

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:31 AM, wrote: > >> I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, >> and here is what I found : >> - amanda >> - bacula >> - BackupPC >> - FreeNAS > > You missed rsync. Rsync is another one-off approach where you have to roll your own command

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread m . roth
Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, > and here is what I found : > - amanda > - bacula > - BackupPC > - FreeNAS You missed rsync. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@ce

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
> > I'm pretty sure I saw a note on the networker list that 7.6 SP3 works > with update 27, update 29, and java 7. > > Well we don't have a support contract - is it a free upgrade? -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Foo

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Philippe Naudin wrote: >> >> If you want mostly-online backups with perhaps an occasional tar >> archive, it will be hard to beat backuppc because of it's storage >> pooling and ability to run over rsync or smb with no remote agents. >> For all-tape, I'd probably go

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Philippe Naudin
Le jeu 08 déc 2011 09:43:21 CET, Les Mikesell a écrit: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > > > > Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun > > StorageTek SL24 tape unit backing it all up.  OSes are a combination of > > RHEL and CentOS.  The software

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Dec 8, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Alan McKay wrote: >> >> Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun >> StorageTek SL24 tape unit backing it all up. OSes are a combination of >> RHEL and CentOS. The software we are us

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > > Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun > StorageTek SL24 tape unit backing it all up.  OSes are a combination of > RHEL and CentOS.  The software we are using is EMC > >    NetWorker Management Console version 3.

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Lars Hecking
> NetWorker Management Console version 3.5.1.Build.269 > based on NetWorker version 7.5.1.Build.269 > > The pickle we are in right now is that this software is Java based, and > stops working at a very specific release of JRE (1.6.26 or something like > that). We still have some machine

[CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun StorageTek SL24 tape unit backing it all up. OSes are a combination of RH

Re: [CentOS] Backup live system

2011-10-20 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:52 AM, ken wrote: > Though I've worked with enterprise systems, I'm not familiar with FOOS > backup software.  Which of those recommended would allow me to backup a > system while users are active on it?  If it matters the system uses LVM. >    I'd also like to be able t

Re: [CentOS] Backup live system

2011-10-20 Thread Benjamin Hackl
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:52:15 -0400 ken wrote: > If it matters the > system uses LVM. I'd also like to be able to avoid needing the > network if possible. That is, I'd plug in a disk into a USB port and > backup the system onto that... again, while the system is live. If it should be an exact cop

Re: [CentOS] Backup live system

2011-10-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:52 AM, ken wrote: > Though I've worked with enterprise systems, I'm not familiar with FOOS > backup software.  Which of those recommended would allow me to backup a > system while users are active on it?  If it matters the system uses LVM. >    I'd also like to be able to

Re: [CentOS] Backup live system

2011-10-20 Thread m . roth
ken wrote: > Though I've worked with enterprise systems, I'm not familiar with FOOS > backup software. Which of those recommended would allow me to backup a > system while users are active on it? If it matters the system uses LVM. > I'd also like to be able to avoid needing the network if pos

[CentOS] Backup live system

2011-10-20 Thread ken
Though I've worked with enterprise systems, I'm not familiar with FOOS backup software. Which of those recommended would allow me to backup a system while users are active on it? If it matters the system uses LVM. I'd also like to be able to avoid needing the network if possible. That is,

Re: [CentOS] Backup and restore for CentOS 5.5

2011-10-03 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Denis wrote: >> Hi - I have a NFS/NIS server environment running CentOS 5.5 on a Dell >> Optiplex 240. I would like to back it up and then move it to a new >> machine. > > You don't mention the type of the new machine. If it is not identical >

Re: [CentOS] Backup and restore for CentOS 5.5

2011-10-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Denis wrote: > Hi - I have a NFS/NIS server environment running CentOS 5.5 on a Dell > Optiplex 240. I would like to back it up and then move it to a new > machine. You don't mention the type of the new machine. If it is not identical hardware you are probably bet

Re: [CentOS] Backup and restore for CentOS 5.5

2011-10-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/03/11 1:16 PM, Denis wrote: > Hi - I have a NFS/NIS server environment running CentOS 5.5 on a Dell > Optiplex 240. I would like to back it up and then move it to a new > machine. Couple of questions: > > 1. This is an older computer Dell Optiplex 240 that I am unable to > connect a USB drive

[CentOS] Backup and restore for CentOS 5.5

2011-10-03 Thread Denis
Hi - I have a NFS/NIS server environment running CentOS 5.5 on a Dell Optiplex 240. I would like to back it up and then move it to a new machine. Couple of questions: 1. This is an older computer Dell Optiplex 240 that I am unable to connect a USB drive to. In the "linux rescue" environment fdi

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-03-20 Thread Pinter Tibor
On 03/20/2011 08:31 AM, madu...@gmail.com wrote: > Recall.. > I run now the following task every day tar -cvzf > /rescue/website-$(date +%u).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* > I want now to move these files from the local server to a remote server via > ftp. > > any help. > > Thanks man lftp t __

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-03-20 Thread madu...@gmail.com
Recall.. I run now the following task every day tar -cvzf /rescue/website-$(date +%u).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* I want now to move these files from the local server to a remote server via ftp. any help. Thanks On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, wrote: > madu...@gmail.com wrote: >> Should I add to

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM, madu...@gmail.com wrote: > home folder for backup  /backup This is a tactical problem. If you actually read the "File System Hierarchy" guidelines, you'll see that it should be in "/var" as dynamic, volatile content, probably undar "/var/backup". If that backup r

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 1:07 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] backup script > > madu...@gmail.com wrote: &g

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread m . roth
madu...@gmail.com wrote: > home folder for backup /backup > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:49 PM, wrote: >> madu...@gmail.com wrote: >>> I have reallocated it to /home >>> thx >> Please stop top posting. >> >> Relocated it to /home, as in /home/backup? Don't clutter your base >> directories, that's

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread madu...@gmail.com
home folder for backup /backup On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:49 PM, wrote: > madu...@gmail.com wrote: >> I have reallocated it to /home >> thx > Please stop top posting. > > Relocated it to /home, as in /home/backup? Don't clutter your base > directories, that's very bad practice. > >       mark >

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread m . roth
madu...@gmail.com wrote: > I have reallocated it to /home > thx Please stop top posting. Relocated it to /home, as in /home/backup? Don't clutter your base directories, that's very bad practice. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, madu...@gmail.com wrote: To: CentOS mailing list From: "madu...@gmail.com" Subject: Re: [CentOS] backup script I have reallocated it to /home thx On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, wrote: madu...@gmail.com wrote: Should I add to my tar the following

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread madu...@gmail.com
I have reallocated it to /home thx On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, wrote: > madu...@gmail.com wrote: >> Should I add to my tar the following option >>  -p, --preserve-permissions >>               extract all protection information >> tar -cvzfp .. >> >> Thanks >> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread cpolish
madu...@gmail.com wrote: > Should I add to my tar the following option > -p, --preserve-permissions > extract all protection information > tar -cvzfp .. > > Thanks > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:10 PM, John Doe wrote: > > From: "madu...@gmail.com" > > > >> I want to create bas

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread madu...@gmail.com
Should I add to my tar the following option -p, --preserve-permissions extract all protection information tar -cvzfp .. Thanks On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:10 PM, John Doe wrote: > From: "madu...@gmail.com" > >> I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website runn

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-25 Thread John Doe
From: "madu...@gmail.com" > I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running > on linux /var/www/htdocs/* local on the same box on different > directory > I am thinking to do a local backup using crontab (snapshot my web) > tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-25 Thread Cameron Kerr
On 25/01/11 21:56, madu...@gmail.com wrote: > Am thinking to have this in my script > > #!/bin/bash > tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* > find /tmp/website/website*.tgz -ctime +5 -exec rm {} \; # removes > older then 5 days That should do in your case. Though, in

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-25 Thread madu...@gmail.com
Am thinking to have this in my script #!/bin/bash tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* find /tmp/website/website*.tgz -ctime +5 -exec rm {} \; # removes older then 5 days crontab it 30 6 * * * /mypath/myscript On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Nelson wrote: > You

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-25 Thread Nelson
You could create a script and have a variable date --date="5 days ago" append to your tar file and after that, combine it with if syntax. If match, then rm. HTH On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:31 PM, madu...@gmail.com wrote: > I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running >

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-25 Thread Edo
Hi, Try the ff: On 1/25/11 4:31 PM, madu...@gmail.com wrote: > I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running > on linux /var/www/htdocs/* local on the same box on different > directory > I am thinking to do a local backup using crontab (snapshot my web) > tar -cvzf /tmp/w

[CentOS] backup script

2011-01-24 Thread madu...@gmail.com
I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running on linux /var/www/htdocs/* local on the same box on different directory I am thinking to do a local backup using crontab (snapshot my web) tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* This command will creat

Re: [CentOS] Backup KVM / Qemu on Virt-Manager

2010-04-07 Thread Jim Wildman
This is what lvm snapshots are for. Make a snapshot, back it up, delete it. VM keeps running on the 'real' lv. On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Georghy wrote: > Hi guys, > I have a CentOS system with virt-manager installed on it, > the system is installed on a LVM partition with one PV for swap and one > fo

[CentOS] Backup KVM / Qemu on Virt-Manager

2010-04-07 Thread Georghy
Hi guys, I have a CentOS system with virt-manager installed on it, the system is installed on a LVM partition with one PV for swap and one for "/", I only use KVM and qemu virtual machine on this server, I want to do a backup from my Virtual Machines on this server should I use LVM backup or an ot

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Benjamin Smith wrote: > Years ago, I set up a backup tool that wrapped rsync. It has faithfully and > reliably backed up a dozen hosts and too many TB of data to mention, > offsite, > automatically saving as many backup points as disk space allows. > Yo

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Benjamin Smith
Years ago, I set up a backup tool that wrapped rsync. It has faithfully and reliably backed up a dozen hosts and too many TB of data to mention, offsite, automatically saving as many backup points as disk space allows. You're certainly welcome to try it! http://www.effortlessis.com/thisisnotba

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Err.. raid is NOT backup solution. >> Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine. > > Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be > point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Agnello George wrote: > The requirement fro backup is not primarily for HDD failure , but human > error failure . In case one of our user ( eg: the COO with huge mailbox > size has delete all his certain very important mails, and he want to recover > them , the contacts us as we are supposed to

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread John Doe
From: Agnello George > is it possible with " brackup " to back it up to a different server on the > same lan instead of /backup . Is there any documentation on the same . It apparently support: Brackup::Target::Amazon backup to Amazon's S3 service Brackup::Target::CloudFiles backup

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:33 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > [1] Changeset and data/system model over time relation mapping for an > adaptive system sizing feedback loop! ( how'se that for buzzword > injection! ) --- Well if you run vacum on a Postgres DB then all that goes to the crapper...

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Err.. raid is NOT backup solution. >> Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine. > > Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be > point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Err.. raid is NOT backup solution. > > Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine. Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share user access load. Which in t

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Gavin Carr
Have you read Brackup::Manual::Overview? Your questions are all answered in the man pages there or linked from there. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:21:47PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr wrote: > > Brackup will backup to local disk, or remotely to ftp, sf

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen >wrote: > > > 2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr > > > > wrote: > > > >> You might

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Mike McCarty wrote: > Eero Volotinen wrote: > > 2010/2/24 Mike McCarty : > >> Agnello George wrote: > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server > with > >>> the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take >

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010/2/24 Mike McCarty : >> Agnello George wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with >>> the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential >>> backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of to

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/24/2010 1:31 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >>> >>> We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with >>> the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential >>> backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . >> >> You've s

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Mike McCarty : > Agnello George wrote: >> Hi >> >> We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with >> the  /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential >> backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD  of total 250 GB space )  . > > You'

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Agnello George wrote: > Hi > > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with > the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential > backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . You've stated things in terms of solut

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/24/2010 01:07 PM, Agnello George wrote: > yes just spoke to my senior and confrimed that this was alreday tried > out a delayed replication is possible . > but the current suitation is we need to take backup on the same > server on a different partition /backup :( you can replicate to

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Agnello George wrote: > Hi > > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with > the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take > differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total > 250 GB space ) . We have tried dar , rsync, rdiff

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen >wrote: > > > 2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr > > > > wrote: > > > >> You might

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > > 2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr > > wrote: > > >> You might want to try brackup (http://code.google.com/p/brackup/). For > > >>

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 02/24/2010 11:21 AM, Agnello George wrote: > > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 4805500 Feb 24 16:23 4799. > > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 22920 Feb 24 16:23 cyrus.cache > > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 204 Dec 10 16:27 cyrus.header > > -rw--- 1 cyrus

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/24/2010 11:21 AM, Agnello George wrote: > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 4805500 Feb 24 16:23 4799. > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 22920 Feb 24 16:23 cyrus.cache > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 204 Dec 10 16:27 cyrus.header > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 896 Feb 24 16:23 cyrus.index > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 8669 F

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen > wrote: >> >> 2010/2/24 Agnello George : >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: >> >> > Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, A

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: > >> > Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): > >> > > We have an is

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: >> > Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): >> > > We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server >> > > with >> > > t

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: > > Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): > > > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server > with > > > the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . Th

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
2010/2/24 Eero Volotinen > 2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hrbáč > wrote: > >> > >> Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): > >> > Hi > >> > > >> > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server > with > >> > the /var/spo

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: > Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): > > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with > > the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential > > backup on to /backup partition

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George : > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hrbáč wrote: >> >> Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): >> > Hi >> > >> > We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with >> > the  /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take >>

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hrbáč wrote: > Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): > > Hi > > > > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with > > the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential > > backup on to /backup parti

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread David Hrbáč
Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): > Hi > > We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with > the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential > backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . > We have trie

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George : > Hi > > We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with > the  /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential > backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD  of total 250 GB space )  . > We have tried dar , rsync, rdiff

[CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . We have tried dar , rsync, rdiff and impasync . But its is not sufficin

[CentOS] Backup solution-Solved (Was: Backup server)

2010-01-18 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Arturas Skauronas >Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 6:50 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server Guys, BackupPC works like the proverbial char

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-18 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of m.r...@5-cent.us >Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 5:14 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server > >>>> I was thinking about your lon

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Arturas Skauronas
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > I think nobody has yet mentioned rdiff-backup. I have very good > experiences with it. Easy to setup and control (only remember first to > install the required packages, and I think rsync-devel was not mentioned > but is required). > > Rdiff-ba

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread m . roth
> Sorin Srbu wrote: >>> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >>> Behalf Of Benjamin Franz >>> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:26 PM >>> >>> I was thinking about your long term here. Make sure to use LVM to >>> create your underlaying partition. Then you can add di

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread John Doe
From: Benjamin Franz > Oh, one last thing. Don't forget to use the '-E > stride=XX,stripe-width=YY (where XX and YY are replaced with the > appropriate values) options creating your filesystem on the RAID. > Otherwise your disk drive usage will have 'hot spots' and slower than > optimal speed.

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Les Mikesell >Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:49 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server > >You might want to jo

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Benjamin Franz >Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:43 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server > >> With six drives installed, there i

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Les Mikesell >Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:42 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server > >The other question to ask is whether an offsit

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