CentOS - Dec 2013 - ZFS on Linux testing

On 12/18/2013, 04:00 ,  lists at benjamindsmith.com
wrote:
> I may be being presumptuous, and if so, I apologize in advance...
>
> It sounds to me like you might consider a disk-to-disk backup solution.
> I could suggest dirvish, BackupPC, or our own home-rolled rsync-based
> solution that works rather well:http://www.effortlessis.com/backupbuddy/
>
> Note that with these solutions you get multiple save points that are
> deduplicated with hardlinks so you can (usually) keep dozens of save
> points in perhaps 2x the disk space of a single copy. Also, because of
> this, you can go back a few days / weeks / whatever when somebody
> deletes a file. In our case, we make the backed up directories available
> via read-only ftp so that end users can recover their files.
>
> I don't know if dirvish offers this, but backupbuddy also allows you to
> run pre and post backup shell scripts, which we use (for example) for
> off-site archiving to permanent storage since backup save points expire.
>
> -Ben
Not presumptuous at all!  I have not heard of backupbuddy (or dirvish), 
so I should investigate.  Your description makes it sound somewhat like 
OS-X Time Machine, which I like a lot.  I did try backuppc but it got a 
bit complex to manage IMHO.

Thanks for the tip!

Chuck

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Chuck Munro <chuckm at seafoam.net>
wrote:
>
> Not presumptuous at all!  I have not heard of backupbuddy (or dirvish),
> so I should investigate.  Your description makes it sound somewhat like
> OS-X Time Machine, which I like a lot.  I did try backuppc but it got a
> bit complex to manage IMHO.
I've always considered backuppc to be one of those rare things that
you set up once and it takes care of itself for years.  If you have
problems with it, someone on the backuppc mail list might be able to
help.   It does tend to be slower than native rsync and especially bad
at handling huge directories, but sometimes you can split up large
filesystems into smaller subdirectory runs and if necessary you can
use the ClientAlias feature to make it look like a single large host
is several different systems so you can skew the full and incremental
runs of different areas to different days.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com