On 4/30/2011 7:22 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> *** Yes, you're right. I think I just got confused there for a bit. So the
> only missing piece for me is some sort of rolling expiration so things don't
> get full due to having too many snaps...
I store snapshots with a date as part of the name
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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:r...@karlsbakk.net]
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 5:26 PM
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rsync & snapshot backups?
> OTOH, if you want the entire directory /foo/bar, you might need to
> OTOH, if you want the entire directory /foo/bar, you might need to
> copy from
> several different snapshots. The rolling snapshot idea works fine,
> except I
> need to add some sort of code to expire the "oldest" snaps.
if you used rsync to copy the data to a dataset, or filsystem, and then
sn
Actually, my previous backup system *was* amanda. I ran it on the ubuntu
server, backing up itself and a centos5 server, using vtapes, with the
storage for those being either an NFS or iSCSI volume on a NAS. The only
bad thing about that is the dumps take awhile to run, and restoring
something i
> Baccula would perhaps be overkill, but get you what you're after in
> terms of expirations, pre & post scripts, etc. A bit more complex to
> set up for small onsie and twosie networks but then again once done
> it's pretty much autopilot from there on out.
We have Bacula running smoothly with 50
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 14:40 -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> Here's a question for y'all. I have two linux servers I want to back up
> to my OI NAS/SAN. What I've been playing with is a simple script that
> runs on the OI box, and does an ssh to each of the linux servers, with
> the command
> which seem to do all of what I want. Frex: snapadm.pl, which creates
> rolling backups on daily/weekly/monthly basis with retention times -
> so
> far so good, but it doesn't actually do any backing up. I also found
> rsbackup (based on freebsd?) which does the backing up, including
> snapshottin
Here's a question for y'all. I have two linux servers I want to back up
to my OI NAS/SAN. What I've been playing with is a simple script that
runs on the OI box, and does an ssh to each of the linux servers, with
the command being an rsync back to the OI box. rsyncd on OI is setup to
allow c
