From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 12:28:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73FE816A41F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:28:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1607F43D45 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:28:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAHCSahW029121; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:28:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <437C776B.6000705@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:28:27 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051021 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Clutton References: <57416b300511162006m4cfe53f8n6dc2bccb877a5567@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <57416b300511162006m4cfe53f8n6dc2bccb877a5567@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/1177/Thu Nov 17 02:35:37 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, "mike@lanline.com" Subject: Re: Backup solutions X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:28:38 -0000 Peter Clutton wrote: > On 11/17/05, mike@lanline.com wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >> I'm looking into several backup options for my site. We have a >>mixed (BSDI/FreeBSD/Linux) environment. We recently got a 2TB server and >>I was wondering what the general consensus was on backups. I was either >>considering writing some custom scripts to just tar, zip, and dump data > > > FWIW, i have read that by far the best is dump, because of the way it > deals with the raw data. No need to worry bout files with holes in > them (with other backup tools, this could mean you may not be able to > fit the file system back on after backup, if there are core files etc) > I believe i read this in the O'Rielly text Unix Power Tools, but could > be wrong. They also referenced an extensive test that was done by > someone, and gave the link. I will post it if i find it. rsync handles sparse files just fine. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------