From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 22:36:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A1A416A405 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 22:36:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB3C713C459 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 22:36:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4FMaT4g012698; Wed, 16 May 2007 00:36:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E72FDB82B; Wed, 16 May 2007 00:36:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 00:36:28 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Phusion Message-ID: <20070515223628.GB66036@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Phusion , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="K8nIJk4ghYZn606h" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up large partitions 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: Tue, 15 May 2007 22:36:31 -0000 --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--