Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

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

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

> > 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

> 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

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

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

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

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

--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

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

--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

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

--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

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

--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

>> 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So going back to Amanda and Bacula ... I seem to recall that Amanda uses standard tools on the back end like gtar and/or dump, is that right? What does Bacula use? Does it use one of the standard tools? Or does it have its own proprietary format that it uses? thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat anyth

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > So going back to Amanda and Bacula ... I seem to recall that Amanda uses > standard tools on the back end like gtar and/or dump, is that right? Amanda needs its own client installation on the target, but uses the local gnutar or dump, then stor

[CentOS] Centos backup tools

Hi all! I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either USB3 or esata. Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also find backupPC at epel, backintime also at epel, kbackup. DejaDup looks interesting, but

Re: [CentOS] Backup Question

Joseph L. Casale wrote: We are migrating an LTO2 library off Veritas and NTBackup on a Windows Server to a Linux Server with either Bacula or Amanda. Originally, the Windows server used scripts to sync changes from various other Windows servers using Robocopy to a locally attached set of volum

RE: [CentOS] Backup Question

> Rsync directly from the target would be more efficient. I've never been > able to make this work using cygwin sshd on the windows side to accept > the connection and run rsync, but that could be a bug that is fixed now. > It will work using rsync in daemon mode on the windows side, or > initiat

Re: [CentOS] Backup Question

Joseph L. Casale wrote: Rsync directly from the target would be more efficient. I've never been able to make this work using cygwin sshd on the windows side to accept the connection and run rsync, but that could be a bug that is fixed now. It will work using rsync in daemon mode on the windows

Re: [CentOS] Backup Question

> I can't install cygwin or a daemon for that matter on the Windows > Server, but I could execute a scheduled job to run a Widows port of > rsync on the file server which I am not opposed to at all. My only > problem with that is how do I then trigger the Bacula server to begin > the dump to tape o

Re: [CentOS] Backup Question

After a moment or two of digging: http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Tips_Suggestions.html#19274 Run Before Job = ShellScriptShownBelow Shawn On Sunday 16 March 2008, Shawn Everett wrote: > > I can't install cygwin or a daemon for that matter on the Windows > > Server, but I could execute a sc

Re: [CentOS] Backup Question

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 14:15 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > We are migrating an LTO2 library off Veritas and NTBackup on a Windows > Server to a Linux Server with either Bacula or Amanda. Originally, the > Windows server used scripts to sync changes from various other Windows > servers using Roboc

[CentOS] backup to disk

Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated. Pointers to good how-to's especially wel

[CentOS] backup to disk

Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated. Pointers to good how-to's especially wel

[CentOS] backup / compressed copy

Hi, I think about buying a NAS-server from Sun. To backup this server I want to use our central to-tape backup. For whatever reason ppl are asking me to make one compressed copy to disk and only backup this copy. So to reduce load I'd like to have a script that: identifies changed files only (u

Re: [CentOS] backup question

I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data. It backs up entire disks/partitions, so includes everything including configuration files, tweaks etc. It is fast compared to something like Ghost, and can backup to devices (USB stick or external HDD) or a network location.

Re: [CentOS] backup question

On Sunday 22 June 2008 09:37:38 admin wrote: > I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data. Is there any compression? Does it span multiple CDs if necessary? Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.o

Re: [CentOS] backup question

http://www.rsnapshot.org/ 2008/6/22 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sunday 22 June 2008 09:37:38 admin wrote: >> I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data. > > Is there any compression? Does it span multiple CDs if necessary? > > Anne > __

Re: [CentOS] backup question

Anne Wilson wrote: I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data. Is there any compression? Does it span multiple CDs if necessary? It does an image copy and knows enough about most filesystems to only copy the used portions of the disk. Yes it compresses, no it

Re: [CentOS] backup question

On Sunday 22 June 2008 15:27:34 Les Mikesell wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >> I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data. > > > > Is there any compression? Does it span multiple CDs if necessary? > > It does an image copy and knows enough about most filesystems to only >

Re: [CentOS] backup question

Yep, and USB external hard drives are even cheaper per GB. Here in Australia an 8G USB stick retails for around AU$50, while a 250G 2.5" external HDD is around AU$140 by comparison (about 1/10 the cost per GB). Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 June 2008 15:27:34 Les Mikesell wrote: Anne Wils

Re: [CentOS] backup question

Do you need to shut your machine down to use clonezilla? After a quick skim of the site, I can't find anything that says you don't. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >> >> > I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup o

Re: [CentOS] backup question

Gary Richardson wrote: Do you need to shut your machine down to use clonezilla? After a quick skim of the site, I can't find anything that says you don't. Yes, Clonezilla is a LiveCD which you boot from to clone the disk so your machine will be offline during this process.

Re: [CentOS] backup question

Gergely Buday wrote: Dear CentOs users, I have a centos server with nothing important at the moment, but I would like to install some web-based project management tool (trac for the curious) that would contain important data. And, as my network is growing the configuration of the server is becom

Re: [CentOS] backup question

I think so, at least you do the way I use it because you boot the machine off the Clonezilla CD, then mount the device/partition you're backing up to and select the device/partition being backed up. But Clonezilla also has a whole network mode of operation involving a Clonezilla server, so I c

Re: [CentOS] backup question

admin wrote: I think so, at least you do the way I use it because you boot the machine off the Clonezilla CD, then mount the device/partition you're backing up to and select the device/partition being backed up. But Clonezilla also has a whole network mode of operation involving a Clonezilla

[CentOS] backup with dd

hi all, i have a centos box and would like to back up just in case the hard drive fail. one way to do this is duplicate the image of the hard drive, so if the hard drive fail, just remove it and put mirrored hard drive and done. here my system info: uname -a Linux jadenet.jadesterling.com 2

Re: [CentOS] Backup live system

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

Re: [CentOS] Backup live system

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

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

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

[CentOS] backup incrementals on mysql

Hi all. I usally make backups of databases mysql. I make buckups of all datbase for example: mysqldump -u user -ppassword name_db > backups.sql also I make backups just its schema for example mysqldump -u user -ppassword name_db --no-data > backups.sql but now I need a backups incrementals

[CentOS] Backup Suggestion on C7

Hi list, I'm building a backup server for 3 hosts (1 workstation, 2 server). I will use bacula to perform backups. The backup is performed on disks (2 x 3TB on mdraid mirror) and for each hosts I've created a logical volume with related size. This 3 hosts have different data size with differe

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On 05/16/2014 10:58 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either > USB3 or esata. > > Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. > > I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also find backupPC > at epel, backinti

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either > USB3 or esata. > > Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. > > I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also find backupPC > at epel

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

Hi Fred, > I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also find backupPC > at epel, backintime also at epel, kbackup. I am using backuppc here to backup 5 servers to a dedicated backup-machine. In parallel, I am using http://storebackup.org/ . Storebackup uses hard links to reduce sp

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

Hi Fred, BackupPC is really good solution for Small Office/Home office enviroment. If you don't need anything complex but want to manage 2-3 workstation's backup than you can use BackupPC without any issues. 16.05.2014 19:33, Michael Schumacher ?: > Hi Fred, > >> I know there's rsync, which

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On 5/16/2014 10:58 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either > USB3 or esata. > > Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. > > I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also find backupPC > at epel, backintim

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On 5/16/2014 8:58 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either > USB3 or esata. > > Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. > >>>snip<<< There are a number of good ready made choices (backuppc seems to be the most sugges

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

58 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Centos backup tools Hi all! I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either USB3 or esata. Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also find backupPC at e

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Steve Lindemann wrote: > On 5/16/2014 8:58 AM, Fred Smith wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either >> USB3 or esata. >> >> Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. >> snip<<< > > There are a n

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: >> > There are a lot of people who like Amanda, but it might be a bit more > time consuming to setup properly Amanda is sort-of tuned to work with tapes with the unique feature of being able to pre-estimate the sizes of full and incremental

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On 2014-05-16, Les Mikesell wrote: > > The most unique thing about backuppc is that it has its own > implementation of rsync that can work with the compressed archive > files on the server and a stock remote rsync version accessing the > target files. Or, it can use tar or samba to transfer the

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-05-16, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> The most unique thing about backuppc is that it has its own >> implementation of rsync that can work with the compressed archive >> files on the server and a stock remote rsync version accessing the >>

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 02:43:55PM -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Steve Lindemann wrote: > > On 5/16/2014 8:58 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > >> Hi all! > >> > >> I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either > >> USB3 or esata. > >> > >> Look

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >> > BackupPC looks like a good tool, but... 1) it requires I configure > Apache, and this is just my personal/home workstation where I don't > really have any other use for Apache, and I don't really feel like having > to learn Apache just to do

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

If you think that you'll expand out to more machines, you may also want to consider Bacula. It's a very stable and capable solution with enterprise grade features. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cento

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On 05/16/2014 04:58 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. Another solution could be rsync with zfs or btrfs. -- Gruß, Christian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cen

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

From: Fred Smith > Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. You could also have a look at bacula... JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 06:12:17PM +, Richer, Mark (CIV) wrote: > We're using rsnapshot. > > My colleague set it up, but I will be taking over administration soon. > > Mark Having looked more deeply into rsnapshot, I think I'll try it, as it appears it'll do what I need. My thanks to ALL O

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: >> > I've been using BackupPC for years. I currently have it running on a > small CentOS system that mainly does backups. > > I like it because it's agentless ( it uses ssh/rsync ). The Pooling and > Data-deduping is also nice, and saves

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciat

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated. Pointers to good h

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

On Saturday 29 March 2008 18:54:38 Ray Leventhal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My > user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing > for things backing up os and configs. > > Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

On 31/03/2008, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS - sorry if this shows up twice...I posted on 29 March, but never > saw it on the list :) It did arrive on the list. :-D Alan. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

Barry Brimer wrote: Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. Have you looked at rsnapshot ?? Hi Barry, Thanks for t

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

Ned Slider wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. In a mixed Linux/Windows environment, I deployed a Linux backup serve

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Leventhal wrote: > Thanks for the reply and link. I'm looking this over right now. If you look to use rsnapshot, there's a guide on the CentOS wiki. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RsnapshotBackups Regards, Max -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Vers

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

Ray Leventhal wrote: > Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I've cloned the OS drive already and it is safely locked away. We're an entirely off-internet system, so updates aren't even a problem. The issue is the user data and with what you and others have written, I'm considering doing a local

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

Les Mikesell wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: > Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I've cloned the OS drive already and it is safely locked away. We're an entirely off-internet system, so updates aren't even a problem. The issue is the user data and with what you and others have written, I'm consi

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user > data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for > things backing up os and configs. > > Any pointers on setting

Re: [CentOS] backup / compressed copy

- "Andreas Kuntzagk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > So to reduce load I'd like to have a script that: > > identifies changed files only (using md5?) > copies them > and compresses them > > storeBackup.pl does something similar, but keeps versions and creates > hardlinks between them. (Is

Re: [CentOS] backup / compressed copy

> > So to reduce load I'd like to have a script that: > > > > identifies changed files only (using md5?) > > copies them > > and compresses them > > > > storeBackup.pl does something similar, but keeps versions and creates > > hardlinks between them. (Is storeBackup in any CentOS repo? I know it

Re: [CentOS] backup / compressed copy

Andreas Kuntzagk wrote: Hi, I think about buying a NAS-server from Sun. To backup this server I want to use our central to-tape backup. For whatever reason ppl are asking me to make one compressed copy to disk and only backup this copy. So to reduce load I'd like to have a script that: ident

Re: [CentOS] backup / compressed copy

> > Backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) will backup a number of > hosts, compressing all files and hardlinking all duplicates (whether > from different hosts or different backup runs) to reduce the storage > needed and permit keeping a longer history on line. It also provides a > nice

Re: [CentOS] backup / compressed copy

- "Andreas Kuntzagk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > So to reduce load I'd like to have a script that: > > > > > > identifies changed files only (using md5?) > > > copies them > > > and compresses them > > > > > > > Well, I'm using "rsync --link-dest" to do this. This article > > "http

Re: [CentOS] backup / compressed copy

Andreas Kuntzagk wrote: Backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) will backup a number of hosts, compressing all files and hardlinking all duplicates (whether from different hosts or different backup runs) to reduce the storage needed and permit keeping a longer history on line. It also prov

Re: [CentOS] backup / compressed copy

Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote: - "Andreas Kuntzagk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: So to reduce load I'd like to have a script that: identifies changed files only (using md5?) copies them and compresses them Well, I'm using "rsync --link-dest" to do this. This article "http://www.r

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have a centos box and would like to back up just in case the hard drive fail. one way to do this is duplicate the image of the hard drive, so if the hard drive fail, just remove it and put mirrored hard drive and done. here my system info: uname -a Linux jaden

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

Les Mikesell wrote: Clonezilla-live is a boot-from CD linux that will copy just the used portions of the disk and can save to another disk or image files on local disks or over the network. I'd recommend it over dd, but maybe someone has a way to do LVM snapshots so the copy can be done withou

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:07 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > > i've generally used dump(8) and restore(8) to image ext2/3FS > this can even be used to do an incremental dump although I rarely do that. > > while i've never tried this, in theory, if you're using LVM, you can > snapshot a

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hiep Nguyen wrote: > >> hi all, >> >> i have a centos box and would like to back up just in case the hard drive >> fail. one way to do this is duplicate the image of the hard drive, so if >> the hard drive fail, just remov

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have a centos box and would like to back up just in case the hard drive fail. one way to do this is duplicate the image of the hard drive, so if th

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

Hiep Nguyen wrote: > Clonezilla-live is a boot-from CD linux that will copy just the used portions of the disk and can save to another disk or image files on local disks or over the network. I'd recommend it over dd, but maybe someone has a way to do LVM snapshots so the copy can be done wit

[CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

I've a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS 6.3 with paired 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. It works well. One filesystem is very large, >500GB, and contains numerous large files: SQL, docs, church librar

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