From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 28 16:31:04 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1802E16A421 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:31:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF35713C47E for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:31:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so1311952wra for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:31:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=DPHxHuxRXQFUX817tzBqcL0MNIFxCTaV98i8G6NXWVM=; b=fqmdQVez1TlkQFs4j3x28hoS87tBeeZPZQ2LeE7xvl4tk4kYfkWJxP8M/xIH/LzsHROpMjg8HZNjbydC7kmeUwQVODZWxbcxHjQXQTPTIrh5e6RCQXxv5Jt3bE0cNuY63wEh3RnX0lxCm2byqJqW8VaSPxcBzwxxmQAzSH5ZLmM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=G9Z8lYVX981jZ9F51sbbeU06nPx9lfFIKSNiApmGAFJiaE0N0JLOvOHvH8o5cjbIZITNXszrMIGlGBpipCsJXsTJn2nfeUUAjbTJHYxoaQ064GMbgM3Mt4KOU99fFTAyUYokr7Js1NnLN4mZ5l2Ag4aIZkUV45ZLPh7f6FzaePo= Received: by 10.90.98.3 with SMTP id v3mr5996333agb.1190995430995; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.101.1 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57d710000709280903k1f73d6c0ncc18dcadc0b44910@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:03:50 -0700 From: "pete wright" To: "Alexandre Biancalana" In-Reply-To: <8e10486b0709280652q612c3cc6qf2c7c4efcb4caccf@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8e10486b0709280652q612c3cc6qf2c7c4efcb4caccf@mail.gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Large FileServer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:31:04 -0000 On 9/28/07, Alexandre Biancalana wrote: > Hi list, > > I've to backup a large window$ 2003 FileServer (~800GB) from my new > FreeBSD BackupServer (before I can change this fileserver to FreeBSD). > > I'm trying cygwin+rsync on FileServer side and rsync+hardlinks on > BackupServer side. > > Using rsync the two great advantages are: > 1. Only copy the changes > 2. on the BackupServer side I use hardlinks from the older backups, > with this only space consumed is from file that where changed. > > on the bad side: > 1. Problems with long pathnames > 2. Problems with unicode filenames > 3. Very slow copy ~ 2MB/s (I've doubt if this can be improved using any > other copy method) > > > I want hear some ideas from the list about the options available to > accomplish this job. > > Alexandre - have you looked at using something like Bacula: http://www.bacula.org/ You should get much better performance (you can write your backup to disk - it does not have to be a tape device) and all windows metadata etc. should be preserved as well. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group