Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 00:36:28 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Phusion <phusion2k@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up large partitions Message-ID: <20070515223628.GB66036@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <c3ed3fdc0705151427t58bc30cav4037d4ac64c5c0eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <c3ed3fdc0705151427t58bc30cav4037d4ac64c5c0eb@mail.gmail.com>
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--K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:27:01PM -0500, Phusion wrote: > I need some advice on how to backup a UNIX server. The server has > multiple large partitions ranging from 200 to 400 GB. Also, the server > doesn't have a tape drive. We recently got a large NAS device that has > 2 TB of storage space. The UNIX server has Samba installed and can be > setup to mount a Windows network share. I would like the ability to > run full and incremental backups as well as restores. Let me know what > you think. Use dump(8) (with the -L flag!) and bzip2(1) to write compressed dumps to the NAS (which should be mounted, of course). If you do it in a cron job at night, no one will be bothered by it. Don't bother with bzip2 if most of your data is already compressed, like photos, videos, zip files=20 or mp3. I've written a small shell-script that does just that. Mail me if you want it. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGSjXsEnfvsMMhpyURAqfnAJ9Fga3jpusfEhb46ZZgkN3Aui/UcACfdRpn MruqcEov7BxpzD9UPQPhlpI= =2jGQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h--
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