Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:34:57 +1000 From: "David N" <davidn04@gmail.com> To: "Howard Goldstein" <hg@queue.to> Cc: jason+lists.freebsd-questions@lixfeld.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup advice Message-ID: <4d7dd86f0705231734waa4e560lef135dafab849605@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4654DA82.7040202@queue.to> References: <28E0DBBA-BB24-4D6B-AE65-07EB5254025C@lixfeld.ca> <4654DA82.7040202@queue.to>
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On 24/05/07, Howard Goldstein <hg@queue.to> wrote: > Jason Lixfeld wrote: > > - Other folks dumping to a hard drive at night? Care to share any of > > your experiences/rationale? > > Not with dump/restore. After using amanda and a tape drive for eons I'm > now happy with a bacula solution to backup 2 freebsds and a windows > machine. It does incrementals except on Saturday night when it > alternates between a differential (sort of a mass incremental from the > last full) and a full backup to a cheap IDE drive. Every Sunday I copy > the IDE drive to a USB drive and take it offsite and bring back another > one. > > After restoring from scratch - power supply frying the entire RAID array > on my desktop -STABLE machine - I think the advantages of dump are > certainly there but for my apps, where I don't have any huge sparse > files or a lot of hard links other than whatever gets installed with a > fresh install (if anything) to worry about - they're outweighed by the > convenience of bacula where I can go back to a point in time. YMMV... > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > We have something similar, we use rsnapshot (/usr/ports/sysutils/rsnapshot/) http://www.rsnapshot.org/ The first rsnapshot takes up the full amount of space and rsnapshot there after only takes up the space of those files that have changed.
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