[SLUG] Talks for this Friday and suggestions for the future

2010-08-22 Thread elliott-brennan
Okay, so it may be that some of you are leaving it to the last minute...but just in case. Each SLUG meeting is your opportunity to socialise and hang-out...and that's all fine. However, it is also made up of presentations and displays and the opportunity to learn something new. So, come on down

Re: [SLUG] Backups

2010-08-22 Thread Troy Rollo
On Monday 23 August 2010 09:26:11 Dave Kempe wrote: > Seems correct, and the primary reason why we moved to rdiff-backup and disk > based backup. We get to keep effective full versions for as long as we have ... > http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/ > and > https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/show/b

Re: [SLUG] Backups

2010-08-22 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - > From: "Amos Shapira" > How do you backup databases with that (I'm specifically interested to > hear about PostgresQL)? Snapshot the filesystem every day? > > We have a 300Gb postgres database and growing rapidly, and I'm looking > for better ways to back it up with

Re: [SLUG] Backups

2010-08-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23 August 2010 09:26, Dave Kempe wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "james" >> So the file created on day 2 backed up on day 3 is lost. >> Can anybody point to the boat (I've missed) or confirm my vision. > > Seems correct, and the primary reason why we moved to rdiff-backup and di

Re: [SLUG] Backups

2010-08-22 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - > From: "james" > So the file created on day 2 backed up on day 3 is lost. > Can anybody point to the boat (I've missed) or confirm my vision. Seems correct, and the primary reason why we moved to rdiff-backup and disk based backup. We get to keep effective full vers

Re: [SLUG] Backups

2010-08-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
DaZZa writes: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:54 PM, james wrote: > >> I've spent many hours with pencil and paper, I certain, but am asking in >> case someone older-n-wiser can offer sage words: [...] > Yup, that's the biggest failings with most "commercially acceptable" backup > regimes. > > It's

Re: [SLUG] Backups

2010-08-22 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi James, In my experience, the most often restore of a file from backup is from yesterday's tape. Then it reduces from there. It is also a simple question of what the business wants. Some places I've worked for wanted a backup of everything and were prepared to pay for it. Others were only

Re: [SLUG] Backups

2010-08-22 Thread Rick Phillips
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:54 PM, james wrote: > > I've spent many hours with pencil and paper, I certain, but am asking in > > case > > someone older-n-wiser can offer sage words: > > > > If I want to backup a system for n days, and be able to recover any > > particular > > days files the onl

Re: [SLUG] Backups

2010-08-22 Thread DaZZa
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:54 PM, james wrote: > I've spent many hours with pencil and paper, I certain, but am asking in case > someone older-n-wiser can offer sage words: > > If I want to backup a system for n days, and be able to recover any particular > days files the only way that I can see is