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I'm rsync'ing an rdiff-backup repository to a different machine and I have a few questions I'm hoping you guys can help me out with. Should I use --archive? Or maybe -rlD instead? Can I restrict an SSH key to rsync? I can do it with rdiff-backup with command="rdiff-backup --server" but I can't figure out how to do it with rsync. The rdiff-backup repository I'm

Hey there, I'm testing LVM snapshot to make backups and I've some questions about snapshot lvm. In my test case I have httpd, postgresql db and a dataset on a VM. Running a backup I follow this steps: 1) Stop httpd 2) Create lvm snapshot on the dataset 3) Backup database 4) restart httpd (to avoid more downtime) 5) mount the snapshot and execute backup 6) umount and remove the snapshot

I'm still pretty new to running a mail server, but one thing I've come to appreciate over the years is a good backup strategy. Since I have always run my own servers for practice and for personal use I don't have access to Enterprise backup solutions. Because of that I usually just fall back to scripts and tarballs and offload the content on a regular basis. Right now I'm

Il 17/09/2018 22:12, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: > On 9/17/18 7:50 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Running a backup I follow this steps: >> >> 1) Stop httpd >> 2) Create lvm snapshot on the dataset >> 3) Backup database >> 4) restart httpd (to avoid more downtime) >> 5) mount the snapshot and execute backup >> 6) umount and remove the snapshot

On 9/17/18 11:38 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Il 17/09/2018 22:12, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: >> That doesn't look right.? It should look more like 1) stop or freeze >> all of the services (httpd and database), 2) make the snapshot, 3) >> start or thaw all of the services, 4) mount the snapshot, 5) back up >> the data, 6) remove the snapshot. > > About

On Wed, 2018-09-19 at 08:55 +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Il 18/09/2018 17:14, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: > > On 9/17/18 11:38 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > > Il 17/09/2018 22:12, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: > > > > That doesn't look right.? It should look more like 1) stop or > > > > freeze? > > > > all of the services (httpd and

After the recent yum update to rdiff-backup-1.2.2-1.el5.rf rdiff-backup no longer works. I don't "speak" python so not sure what's going on. Here's a portion of what I'm seeing... # rdiff-backup /etc/ /backup/localhost/etc Exception '[Errno 34] Numerical result out of range' raised of class 'exceptions.IOError': File

On 9/17/18 7:50 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Running a backup I follow this steps: > > 1) Stop httpd > 2) Create lvm snapshot on the dataset > 3) Backup database > 4) restart httpd (to avoid more downtime) > 5) mount the snapshot and execute backup > 6) umount and remove the snapshot > > > I think that this could be fine (if not please correct me) That

hi everyone a good basher around here? I try in a script: _rdiffBack="rdiff-backup -v5 --tempdir /tmp/ --no-eas --exclude-other-filesystems --exclude-symbolic-links" _rdffiExclude="--exclude '**/~*' --exclude '**.tmp' --exclude-regexp '(.glusterfs|.trashcan|temp)'" _execCom=${!2} _sourceDir=${1} _backupTo=${3} __backMeUp() { for _sourceDir in

I'm sure some people will tell me I'm doing it wrong but I always just use rsync for backups, automated in cron. I may be doing it wrong but it always works. On 10/12/2016 07:14 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Hi list, > I've solved my problem. > > I've understood some concepts. > > I've defined bacula-sd multiple devices with different Media Type and >

Il 18/09/2018 17:14, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: > On 9/17/18 11:38 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Il 17/09/2018 22:12, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: >>> That doesn't look right.? It should look more like 1) stop or freeze >>> all of the services (httpd and database), 2) make the snapshot, 3) >>> start or thaw all of the services, 4) mount the snapshot, 5)

I'm not a bacula expert, but have had 30+ years in the industry doing backups. I'm a little concerned about what you are planning. As I understand it you are going to be keeping just one copy of each machine on a disk attached to the server. This will help if you loose the running disks (though it is hardly backup in depth), but what happens if you loose the server due to fire, flood,

Hi list, I've solved my problem. I've understood some concepts. I've defined bacula-sd multiple devices with different Media Type and configured different storage directives in director. Thanks. > Hi list, > I'm building a backup server for 3 hosts (1 workstation, 2 server). I > will use bacula to perform backups. The backup is performed on disks (2 > x 3TB on

Il 07/05/2015 00:47, John R Pierce ha scritto: > On 5/6/2015 1:34 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> My assistant liked backuppc. It is OK and will do decent job for really >> small number of machines (thinking 3-4 IMHO). I run bacula which has >> close >> to a hundred of clients; all is stored in files on RAID units, no tapes. >> Once you configure it it is nice. But to

On May 7, 2015 6:05 AM, "Jussi Hirvi" <greenspot at greenspot.fi> wrote: > > I wonder why nobody has yet mentioned rdiff-backup. It combines browsable directories with multiple versions - the version data is stored in a separate rdiff-backup-data subdirectory (one per backup task). > > One downside is that rdiff-backup causes a lot of network traffic. For that reason I

Hi list, I'm building a backup server for 3 hosts (1 workstation, 2 server). I will use bacula to perform backups. The backup is performed on disks (2 x 3TB on mdraid mirror) and for each hosts I've created a logical volume with related size. This 3 hosts have different data size with different disk change rate. Each host must have a limited sized resource and a reserved space. If a

Hi all. (I am sending this querry here because it is somehow relating to rsync. If i am wrong please pardon me.) I am doing following on these windowsXP and Vista. I am trying to get only incremental backup using "rdiff-backup" (that also uses rsync). I have installed gcc compiler and by following the steps given in http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2005/11/02/rdiff-backup-on-windows/

Is there any chance for rdiff ? I need to frequently synchronize big text file (60MB+) undertaking small changes and I am interested in differences between the subsequent versions [DNS RBL data in dnsbl format, 1E6+ lines of text, new version every 20m, on average 50 new entries (lines) in every synchronization] I would like to get (small) diff file as result of rsync session and apply it to

On 5/6/2015 1:34 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > My assistant liked backuppc. It is OK and will do decent job for really > small number of machines (thinking 3-4 IMHO). I run bacula which has close > to a hundred of clients; all is stored in files on RAID units, no tapes. > Once you configure it it is nice. But to make a configuration work for the > first time is really challenging

Hello, I try to create IMAP archives for our mailing lists (runned by mailman). I run dovecot 1.0-stable from a recent CVS checkout. The obvious version with mboxes works without problems. However, when I try to use maildir storage I run into the following problem: -a message is sent to the list -mailman calls the external archiver (maildrop) which delivers the mail to a normal mbox (for