From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 18:25:09 2008 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 DD77E1065691 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:25:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) Received: from lmailproxy03.edpnet.net (lmailproxy03.edpnet.net [212.71.1.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA9F8FC1C for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:25:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (77.109.107.37.adsl.dyn.edpnet.net [77.109.107.37] (may be forged)) by lmailproxy03.edpnet.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m96IP599010152; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:25:05 +0200 From: Julien Cigar To: Roland Smith In-Reply-To: <20081006173815.GA46342@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <48E9E146.9040308@ispro.net.tr> <20081006173815.GA46342@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:24:54 +0200 Message-Id: <1223317494.1307.13.camel@rivendell.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94/8377/Mon Oct 6 03:36:23 2008 on lmailproxy03.edpnet.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE autolearn=disabled version=3.2.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on lmailproxy03.edpnet.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Evren Yurtesen Subject: Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd? 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: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:25:10 -0000 Sorry for once more but: you can make incremental backups every x minutes with Bacula too .. it only takes one or two minutes on my box to scan for changed files for ~150GB (even faster if you tweak it a bit). It's not really a "true" continuous backup solution, but it's perfectly possible to restore directories/files for changes which occurred x minutes ago, and with retention periods of x days/months/years. On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 19:38 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for > > FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything. > > I don't think so. The closest thing I know of is rsnapshot > (http://www.rsnapshot.org/). > > My solution is to run rsync in a cron job. In my situation this takes > about 5 minutes for approximately 100GB of data. The time it takes will > obviously depend on the rate of change in the data. > > You could also use local snapshots with mksnap_ffs(8), to solve the "oh > shit I deleted my files" situation. > > Roland