Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:21:25 -0600 From: Chris Cook <ccook@tcworks.net> To: Simon <simon@optinet.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: network backup Message-ID: <3DFA4F55.A70AF71F@tcworks.net> References: <20021213180527.6B64543EA9@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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Simon wrote: > > I don't *just* want to make a backup. I want to back it up using an > efficient method because I'm dealing with terabytes of data. I can't > just back so much data daily over network and compress it. I have > to do incremental backups and compression on the fly is a must to > save disk space. I understand that rsync needs to be able to read > local copy of the backup in order to sync files correctly, however, this > can be done using on-fly compression, I just don't have/know the right > tool. Tools like rar and zip can do this only locally and don't support > large archive files; you have to break them up into many smaller ones, > unless I missed something (i tried to zip/rar a lot of files and once the > archive grew over gig or so in size, it errored out on me). Dump is a > mess to work with, it doesn't work with directories nor with single > archive file. You need to keep creating new dumps using different > backup levels and I don't know how you will restore files for x user > using all those little dumps when you need to efficiently. > AMANDA (The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) http://www.amanda.org -- Chris o----< ccook@tcworks.net >------------------------------------o |Chris Cook - Admin |TCWORKS.NET - http://www.tcworks.net | |The Computer Works ISP |FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org | o-------------------------------------------------------------o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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