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

[SLUG] Backups

2010-08-21 Thread james
G'day guys 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 to have a daily backup for n days. Tower

Re: Relevance of dump (was: Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.)

2006-11-13 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Penedo wrote: >On 13/11/06, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>Pretty much everything keeps symlinks, cpio, tar, dump. > > >Just taking this opportunity to try to satisfy my curiosity. > >I was wondering what's the state of dump(8) in the current world of

Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.

2006-11-13 Thread Eddie F
I meant that we'd like to keep symlinks and restore them as they where, rather than replacing the symlink with the original file or loosing them all together. On 11/13/06, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:06:28PM +1100, Eddie F wrote: > Hi all, > > I've bee

Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.

2006-11-12 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:21:30PM +1100, Eddie F wrote: > I meant that we'd like to keep symlinks and restore them as they > where, rather than replacing the symlink with the original file or > loosing them all together. Then you don't have to do anything special. matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux U

Re: Relevance of dump (was: Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.)

2006-11-12 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:12:10PM +1100, Penedo wrote: > On 13/11/06, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Pretty much everything keeps symlinks, cpio, tar, dump. > > > Just taking this opportunity to try to satisfy my curiosity. > > I was wondering what's the state of dump(8) in

Relevance of dump (was: Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.)

2006-11-12 Thread Penedo
On 13/11/06, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pretty much everything keeps symlinks, cpio, tar, dump. Just taking this opportunity to try to satisfy my curiosity. I was wondering what's the state of dump(8) in the current world of multiple file system types, a quick Google came up

Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.

2006-11-12 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:06:28PM +1100, Eddie F wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been ask the question by a friend about what alternatives to cpio > there might be, for backing up to a tape drive and keeping symbolic > links preserved. Had a bit of a dig around on Google, but haven't had > much luck...

[SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.

2006-11-12 Thread Eddie F
Hi all, I've been ask the question by a friend about what alternatives to cpio there might be, for backing up to a tape drive and keeping symbolic links preserved. Had a bit of a dig around on Google, but haven't had much luck... Any suggestions? Thanks, Edd. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] Backups

2003-01-14 Thread John Aranibar
Hello Sluggers, Thanks very much to all of you that have reply my message, it has help me a lot. Regards John -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug