Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/27/2013 11:13 AM, Mike Watson wrote: > One > filesystem is very large, >500GB, and contains numerous large files: > SQL, docs, church libraries in ebook and digital form, plus stored > videos of church services. note that SQL database files generally can't be backed up safely while the SQ

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-28 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 05/27/2013 11:06 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 05/27/2013 02:13 PM, Mike Watson wrote: >> 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

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-28 Thread Mike Watson
How well does it run under cron? mw -- "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee." -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 05/28/2013 11:54 AM, Diego Sanchez wrote: > Or, you can use http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/ (or

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-28 Thread Diego Sanchez
Or, you can use http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/ (or similar) Copy&Paste: Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files. It now supports LVM2 and EXT4 extents. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. It can recursively copy entire folders. It can also b

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-28 Thread SilverTip257
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Mike Watson wrote: > > That's my problem. I hitting a file size limit with dump and tar. > > Reformatting is the obvious solution so you can use one of the > rsync-based backups - but if you really had to kee

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Mike Watson wrote: > That's my problem. I hitting a file size limit with dump and tar. Reformatting is the obvious solution so you can use one of the rsync-based backups - but if you really had to keep the FAT format you could use tar |split -b with some reasonab

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-05-27, Mike Watson wrote: > I'll check again, maybe NTSF. It's a singlepartition 1TB HD so it can't > be FAT32. Unless you have a desperate need for this disk to be readable by Windows, I would definitely make an ext3, ext4, or xfs filesystem on that USB drive. It is absolutely not worth

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
That's my problem. I hitting a file size limit with dump and tar. mw -- "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee." -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 05/27/2013 06:51 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 4:05 PM

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Mike Watson wrote: > I'll check again, maybe NTSF. It's a singlepartition 1TB HD so it can't > be FAT32. > FAT32 can go to 2TB (you just can't format one that size in windows), but has the 4GB file size limit. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com __

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 05/27/2013 02:13 PM, Mike Watson wrote: > 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 cont

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
I'll check again, maybe NTSF. It's a singlepartition 1TB HD so it can't be FAT32. mw -- "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee." -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 05/27/2013 01:43 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 05/27/2013

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
I've used rsync for remote file xfer of directory trees. It's been awhile, I'd forgotten about it. mw -- "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee." -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 05/27/2013 01:24 PM, Nux! wrote: > On 27.

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Phelps, Matt
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Keith Keller < kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2013-05-27, Mike Watson wrote: > > 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 driv

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-05-27, Mike Watson wrote: > 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 num

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/27/2013 01:13 PM, Mike Watson wrote: > Backup will be to an external (USB) removable HD. What file system is on that external HD? FAT32 has a 4GB limit for file size. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. __

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Nux!
On 27.05.2013 19:13, Mike Watson wrote: > 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 cont

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 27 May 2013 13:13:30 -0500 Mike Watson wrote: > Can any suggest a prog or a method to back up this filesystem? rsync -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list

[CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
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