similar to: restoring incremental backups

Hi, I'm a system manager using rsync 2.6.3 to run backups. One of the main requirements is that the data is GPG encrypted before it is sent to the remote host (and stays encrypted there). As it is impossible to encrypt the entire system (which could be well over 10GB) I built a small script to determine which files were modified, unchanged and removed. It does this by generating an md5sum

So I thought I'd get a head start for next week - I have a low-power Linux box that has a few samba shares mounted, and limited hard disk space. This box is connected to a tape library via SCSI card. I want to find the best way to create a full, then incremental backup of the samba mounts, directly to tape. Some of the samba mounts are appliances that cannot run any special

Hi, Presently I have the latest full backup in a 'current' directory and 30 day incrementals in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format directories. Without changing that directory structure I'd like the 'YYYY-DD-MM' directories to contain the full system hardlinked (when applicable) to 'current'. What rsync command-line options could provide me with this? Thanks,

On 11/9/2015 9:50 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > I don't see the distinction you're making. a incremental backup copies everything since the last incremental a differential copies everything since the last full. rsync is NOT a backup system, its just a incremental file copy with the full/incremental/differential approach, a restore to a given date would need to restore the last

On 11/9/2015 11:34 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > I wonder how filesystem behaves when almost every file has some 400 hard > links to it. (thinking in terms of a year worth of daily backups). XFS handles this fine. I have a backuppc storage pool with backups of 27 servers going back a year... now, I just have 30 days of incrementals, and 12 months of fulls, but in backuppc's

I current do some rsync backups with a command like so every day rsync -az -e ssh --stats --delete --exclude "stuff" / user@server:/home/user/ What I want to do is have some incremental backups in there in subdirectories. So, for example, something like this on the remote server /home/user/something.tuesday /home/user/something.friday I thought the --backup --backup-dir Switches were

Hi, we''re using Xen 3.3.0 on Debian Etch with 2.6.18.8 kernel from xen.org on dom0. We have problems starting Intrepid domU (using Intrepid''s kernel 2.6.27-7-server) if we give more than 4GB of memory to this domain. Using memory = ''4096'' works perfectly, but changing it to ''4097'' already gives an error. Can anyone put some light on this?

I have an Overland Arcvault 12 library with a full LTO3 magazine of 400/800 GB tapes. It is connected directly to the fileserver via a SCSI card/cable. The two main directories I want to back up are /var/log, which is on one filesystem, and /home, which is on another. There are _currently_ no databases to worry about, but there may be active users logged in and active jobs running.

for example's sake: With traditional backup systems, you keep a base (full backup, let's say every 30 days), then build incrementals on top of that, eg. (what has changed since the base). So, to restore, you copy over your base, then copy each incremental over the base to rebuild up to the latest snapshot. (*copying new incrementals files over older base files*) With rsync, (using

On 2012-03-24 7:49 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote: > This is already optionally done in v2.0+dbox. MIME attachments can be > stored in plain binary form if they can be reconstructed back into > their original form. It doesn't break any signed stuff. Hey Timo, Splitting this off into a separate thread... On the question of the existing SIS capability for

Hi! I use rsync batch mode for incremental backups. That is, I create an on-line backup with rsync, and use the --write-batch flag to additionally generate my delta, which I send off-site. To restore, I download a full backup and apply the deltas with --read-batch. This is quite a lovely setup, in principle. However, restore has give me problems. Before I detail them, let me ask: Are a lot

Hallo! I am running rsync-2.6.2-1.fc2.0 on fedora 2 server. I use incremental backup with rsync, and I have 7 folders that are rotated on a daily basis. At the moment I run backup only one time each day. /home-area on my server uses 18G, and all the 7 backups together fill up 19G on my usb-disk, so I think my script works okay. It looks like this: rsync -verbose -progres -a

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I would like to do incremental backups of the users' maildir directories to a dedicated backup host (using "rsync -SHa" and rsnapshot). Problem is: Dovecot bloats the incremental backup by changing the file names again and again. Is there some way to tell Dovecot to keep meta information separate from the file names? Any

Hello, I am using rsync v2.5.6 to backup our entire server filesystem over the network to a central backup server. I have copied the example script from the rsync website (http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html) to create incremental backups, the --backup-dir seems to have a strange side-effect. Everything goes well, but on the server side where the backup is stored I can't seem to break out

Hi all. I usally make backups of databases mysql. I make buckups of all datbase for example: mysqldump -u user -ppassword name_db > backups.sql also I make backups just its schema for example mysqldump -u user -ppassword name_db --no-data > backups.sql but now I need a backups incrementals, because the size of DB is very big (500 mb) How to make this? regards -- *Atte.

Hi Thomas, I'm using this script which leverages external snapshots and blockpull: https://github.com/dguerri/LibVirtKvm-scripts It's very simple and on ubuntu requires some tweaks on apparmour configuration. Hth Cheers, Davide -- Davide Guerri http://about.me/davide_guerri > On 20 Sep 2013, at 15:31, Thomas Stein <himbeere@meine-oma.de> wrote: > > Hello. > >

Le vendredi 20 septembre 2013 à 15:31 +0200, Thomas Stein a écrit : > Hello. > > Is someone performing incremental backups via libvirt for qemu/kvm > machines? I'm still having a hard time to > find a nice procedure. I mean is it possible to make a full backup of an > image on monday a do the next days of the week > incremental backups? You can take a look at this

Hi Davide, > Hi Thomas, > I'm using this script which leverages external snapshots and blockpull: https://github.com/dguerri/LibVirtKvm-scripts [1] > > It's very simple and on ubuntu requires some tweaks on apparmour configuration. Would it be hard to adapt this script for LVM-backed VMs? []s, Fernando Lozano Links: ------ [1]

We've recently migrated my entire University including faculty and staff from Novell to Samba. There's typically 700+ clients connected to the samba server at any given time and thus far there are about 400GB of client's files on the server. Basically every Microsoft Windows user generated file (Word, Excel, whatever) of the entire University gets stored on my Samba server. Obviously

Hi > hn LibVirtKvm-scripts # ./fi-backup.sh -b /opt/virt-backup-local/ -d serve.lordcritical > [DEB] qemu-img version '1.6.0' is supported > [DEB] KVM version '1.6.0,' is supported > [DEB] Snapshot for domain 'serve.lordcritical' requested > [DEB] Using timestamp '20130920-151742' > [DEB] Snapshotting block devices for 'serve.lordcritical'