Re: [CentOS] Backup KVM Guest VM in OVA or VMDK format

2022-09-22 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 3:38 PM Ondřej Budai wrote: > Hi Kaushal, > > st 14. 9. 2022 v 16:07 odesílatel Kaushal Shriyan < > kaushalshri...@gmail.com> > napsal: > > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 5:41 PM Fabian Arrotin wrote: > > > > > On 01/09/2022 18:14, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > >

Re: [CentOS] Backup KVM Guest VM in OVA or VMDK format

2022-09-20 Thread Ondřej Budai
Hi Kaushal, st 14. 9. 2022 v 16:07 odesílatel Kaushal Shriyan napsal: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 5:41 PM Fabian Arrotin wrote: > > > On 01/09/2022 18:14, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is there a way to backup KVM Guest VM running CentOS Linux release > > 7.9.2009 > > > (Core) OS

Re: [CentOS] Backup KVM Guest VM in OVA or VMDK format

2022-09-19 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 7:37 PM Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 5:41 PM Fabian Arrotin wrote: > >> On 01/09/2022 18:14, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Is there a way to backup KVM Guest VM running CentOS Linux release >> 7.9.2009 >> > (Core) OS in

Re: [CentOS] Backup KVM Guest VM in OVA or VMDK format

2022-09-14 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 5:41 PM Fabian Arrotin wrote: > On 01/09/2022 18:14, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way to backup KVM Guest VM running CentOS Linux release > 7.9.2009 > > (Core) OS in kvmguestosimage.ova or kvmguestosimage.vmdk format as I am > > trying to restore it in

Re: [CentOS] Backup KVM Guest VM in OVA or VMDK format

2022-09-02 Thread Fabian Arrotin
On 01/09/2022 18:14, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, Is there a way to backup KVM Guest VM running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) OS in kvmguestosimage.ova or kvmguestosimage.vmdk format as I am trying to restore it in AWS by referring to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/ article as per

[CentOS] Backup KVM Guest VM in OVA or VMDK format

2022-09-01 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, Is there a way to backup KVM Guest VM running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) OS in kvmguestosimage.ova or kvmguestosimage.vmdk format as I am trying to restore it in AWS by referring to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/ article as per the below supported file format. [1] Open

Re: [CentOS] Backup Suggestion on C7

2016-10-14 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Hi Martin, this is the off-site backup. Each server is backupped also in farm. Il 13/10/2016 22:24, J Martin Rushton ha scritto: 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

Re: [CentOS] Backup Suggestion on C7

2016-10-13 Thread J Martin Rushton
Mark has asked me to forward this to the list: -%<- Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup Suggestion on C7 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 17:09:41 -0400 From: m.r...@5-cent.us To: J Martin Rushton <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> Please forward to the Ce

Re: [CentOS] Backup Suggestion on C7

2016-10-13 Thread J Martin Rushton
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

[CentOS] Backup Suggestion on C7

2016-10-12 Thread Alessandro Baggi
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

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-11 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent: den 11 maj 2015 07:49 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution Main Config: Schedule: FullPeriod: 27.9

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-11 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: den 11 maj 2015 08:19 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution On 5/10/2015 11:03 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: How did you get away

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/10/2015 11:57 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: expletive. Why can't everybody follow the standards and use a comma when writing decimals. our standard is a . comma is a 1000s seperator. thats the best part about standards, there are so many to choose from!! -- john r pierce, recycling bits in

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-11 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: den 11 maj 2015 09:25 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution On 5/10/2015 11:57 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: expletive. Why can't

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/10/2015 11:03 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: How did you get away with using 27,9 on Fullperiod?8-) I'm seeing Error: No save due to errors and Error: FullPeriod must be a real-valued number, unless I change the value to e.g. 27. This is on BPC v3.2.1. 27.9 not 27,9 (point, not comma). --

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-11 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 7/5/2015 5:01 μμ, Robert Nichols wrote: I use rdiff-backup, but I hesitate to recommend a tool that has been unsupported for over 6 years and does have quite a few bugs. I have had good experience with mondrescue (mondoarchive, mondorestore) for years. It's a free, active project. See:

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-10 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: den 8 maj 2015 17:12 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution On 5/7/2015 11:44 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: May I ask what your

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-08 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: den 7 maj 2015 19:09 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution my year of monthlies and month of dailies of 25 servers has been more

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-08 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy Sent: den 7 maj 2015 23:21 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message Unable

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/7/2015 11:44 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: May I ask what your settings are to achieve that retention rate? there's a lot of settings... but these are probably applicable... Main Config: Schedule: FullPeriod: 27.9 FullKeepCnt: 24 FullKeepCntMin: 8 FullAgeMax: 360

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-08 Thread Warren Young
On May 8, 2015, at 10:24 AM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: If a project is backed/picked up by a corporation, say Redhat or Oracle, or a foundation, say Apache or LibreOffice, then it may have a future more or less independent of any single individual or group. Commercial

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-08 Thread James B. Byrne
On Fri, May 8, 2015 07:59, Timothy Murphy wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: Yeah, well, but it's free. I'm not sure you can complain too much in that case. 8-) I find this comment, often made, completely unacceptable. The implication is that inferior code is OK if the developer is not being paid.

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/8/2015 10:40 AM, Warren Young wrote: - Adobe’s killed off dozens of products over the years. FrameMaker ... Frame isn't dead, my wife is a technical writer in the EDA (electronic design automation) business, and thats about all they use. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-08 Thread Warren Young
On May 8, 2015, at 12:02 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 5/8/2015 10:40 AM, Warren Young wrote: - Adobe’s killed off dozens of products over the years. FrameMaker ... Frame isn't dead When I think of FrameMaker, I think of the program that started out on Solaris, then

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-08 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 01:59:12PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message Unable to read 4 bytes, which comes up if anything is wrong. Possibly the worst error message anywhere? thats an rsync protocol message,

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Sorin Srbu wrote: The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message Unable to read 4 bytes, which comes up if anything is wrong. Possibly the worst error message anywhere? thats an rsync protocol message, and yeah, debugging connection/authentication issues is a bit ugly.

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-08 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 5/8/2015 12:47 PM, Warren Young wrote: On May 8, 2015, at 12:02 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 5/8/2015 10:40 AM, Warren Young wrote: - Adobe’s killed off dozens of products over the years. FrameMaker ... Frame isn't dead When I think of FrameMaker, I think of the

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 07.05.2015 um 08:35 schrieb Michael Schumacher michael.schumac...@pamas.de: Everybody has its favorite backup program, but why rely on only one system? I have to backup 8 servers and use three backup systems in parallel. -- BackupPC. Easy to use, nice user interface with graphical

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 07/05/2015 11:24, Marcin Trendota ha scritto: W dniu 06.05.2015 o 21:21, Alessandro Baggi pisze: What do you mean about Backup PC? Any experiences? What solution do you use? BackupPC is good, howewer it's a pity you can't search for a file in GUI. But it works well, i'm backing up 32

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Jussi Hirvi
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

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Alessandro Baggi
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

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hello Alessandro, Wednesday, May 6, 2015, 9:21:10 PM, you wrote: I'm new with backup ops and I'm searching a good system to accomplish this work. Everybody has its favorite backup program, but why rely on only one system? I have to backup 8 servers and use three backup systems in parallel.

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Marcin Trendota
W dniu 06.05.2015 o 21:21, Alessandro Baggi pisze: What do you mean about Backup PC? Any experiences? What solution do you use? BackupPC is good, howewer it's a pity you can't search for a file in GUI. But it works well, i'm backing up 32 hosts (servers, desktops). Can somebody tell me why

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Marcin Trendota
W dniu 07.05.2015 o 11:46, Alessandro Baggi pisze: I don't know why and don't know if in previous CentOS releases was included. It is in EPEL. BackupPC is available for C7 from nux repo, but this is an external repo. Good enough, thanks for info. -- Over And Out MoonWolf

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/7/2015 2:21 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: John R Pierce wrote: On 5/7/2015 4:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message Unable to read 4 bytes, which comes up if anything is wrong. Possibly the worst error message anywhere? thats an rsync

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On May 7, 2015 6:05 AM, Jussi Hirvi greens...@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

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/07/2015 05:04 AM, Jussi Hirvi 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). I use rdiff-backup, but I hesitate to

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
John R Pierce wrote: On 5/7/2015 4:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message Unable to read 4 bytes, which comes up if anything is wrong. Possibly the worst error message anywhere? thats an rsync protocol message, and yeah, debugging

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 7.5.2015 14.24, Mauricio Tavares wrote: I admit one think it does miss is having a convenient way to look for a file, specially if you physically rotate drives. If rdiff-backup will tell when was the last time a file has been backed up/touched even if drive with said file is not mounted, I

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Devin Reade
--On Thursday, May 07, 2015 06:41:03 PM +0300 Jussi Hirvi greens...@greenspot.fi wrote: But why rotate drives? Big drives are not very expensive nowadays. 1. Redundant copies. 2. Sometimes your filesystems are larger than the largest drives. For example, I'm currently seting up backups

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Keith Keller
On 2015-05-06, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: This sounds like Apple borrowed your idea for their time machine (I bet you are doing it for much-much linger than Apple time machine exists)! rsnapshot has been using rsync with hard links for ages. http://rsnapshot.org/ --keith

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 07/05/2015 11:55, Marcin Trendota ha scritto: W dniu 07.05.2015 o 11:46, Alessandro Baggi pisze: I don't know why and don't know if in previous CentOS releases was included. It is in EPEL. BackupPC is available for C7 from nux repo, but this is an external repo. Good enough, thanks

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/7/2015 4:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message Unable to read 4 bytes, which comes up if anything is wrong. Possibly the worst error message anywhere? thats an rsync protocol message, and yeah, debugging connection/authentication issues

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/6/2015 11:23 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: when disk is filled, on bacula we can recycle disk volumes. What's for BackupPC? There is automatic backup deletion over retention time? my year of monthlies and month of dailies of 25 servers has been more or less constant size for a year or two

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
Geenhuizen wrote: I’ve been using BackupPC for several years for my 10 hosts, and works extremely well, however it can take a lot of disk space, so I’d recommend a dedicated drive for the backups. I've been running BackupPC on two home servers (in different places) running CentOS for many

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
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.

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-06 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 6 May 2015 at 22:49, J Martin Rushton martinrushto...@btinternet.com wrote: Don't dismiss Amanda it works well in a disk based setup. I don't bother with the spooling disk though. I back up to virtual tape slots on an external disk and rotate three external disks; two are in the firesafe

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-06 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Alessandro Baggi wrote: I list, I'm new with backup ops and I'm searching a good system to accomplish this work. I know that on centos there are bacula and amanda but they are too tape oriented. Another is that they are very powerfull but more complex. I need a

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Wed, May 6, 2015 3:27 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Alessandro Baggi wrote: I list, I'm new with backup ops and I'm searching a good system to accomplish this work. I know that on centos there are bacula and amanda but they are too tape oriented. Another is that

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-06 Thread J Martin Rushton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don't dismiss Amanda it works well in a disk based setup. I don't bother with the spooling disk though. I back up to virtual tape slots on an external disk and rotate three external disks; two are in the firesafe at work, one is on top of my PC. On

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-06 Thread Geenhuizen
On May 6, 2015, at 9:46 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Alessandro Baggi wrote: I list, I'm new with backup ops and I'm searching a good system to accomplish this work. I know that on centos there are bacula and amanda but they are too tape oriented. Another is that they are very powerfull

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Wed, May 6, 2015 2:46 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Alessandro Baggi wrote: I list, I'm new with backup ops and I'm searching a good system to accomplish this work. I know that on centos there are bacula and amanda but they are too tape oriented. Another is that they are very powerfull

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-06 Thread m . roth
Alessandro Baggi wrote: I list, I'm new with backup ops and I'm searching a good system to accomplish this work. I know that on centos there are bacula and amanda but they are too tape oriented. Another is that they are very powerfull but more complex. I need a solution for small office for

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-06 Thread m . roth
Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2015 3:27 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Alessandro Baggi wrote: I list, I'm new with backup ops and I'm searching a good system to accomplish this work. I know that on centos there are bacula and amanda but they are too tape

[CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-06 Thread Alessandro Baggi
I list, I'm new with backup ops and I'm searching a good system to accomplish this work. I know that on centos there are bacula and amanda but they are too tape oriented. Another is that they are very powerfull but more complex. I need a solution for small office for disk storage and I found

Re: [CentOS] backup incrementals on mysql

2014-11-11 Thread Fran Garcia
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin rodrigo.pichin...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] backup incrementals on mysql

2014-11-11 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Tue, November 11, 2014 9:10 am, Fran Garcia wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin rodrigo.pichin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I usally make backups of databases mysql. I make buckups of all datbase for example: mysqldump -u user -ppassword name_db

Re: [CentOS] backup incrementals on mysql

2014-11-11 Thread Alexei Altuhov
On Nov 10, 2014 9:25 PM, Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin rodrigo.pichin...@gmail.com wrote: 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

[CentOS] backup incrementals on mysql

2014-11-10 Thread Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin
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,

Re: [CentOS] backup incrementals on mysql

2014-11-10 Thread Chris Stone
Check out MySQL-zrm. Handles all types of MySQL backups locally or remotely. http://www.zmanda.com/download-zrm.php Chris On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin rodrigo.pichin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I usally make backups of databases mysql. I make buckups of all

Re: [CentOS] backup incrementals on mysql

2014-11-10 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Mon, November 10, 2014 1:25 pm, Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-19 Thread John Doe
From: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. You could also have a look at bacula... JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-19 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 06:12:17PM +, Richer, Mark (CIV) wrote: We're using rsnapshot. My colleague set it up, but I will be taking over administration soon. Mark Having looked more deeply into rsnapshot, I think I'll try it, as it appears it'll do what I need. My thanks to ALL OF

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 dwal...@doomd.net wrote: I've been using BackupPC for years. I currently have it running on a small CentOS system that mainly does backups. I like it because it's agentless ( it uses ssh/rsync ). The Pooling and Data-deduping is also

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-18 Thread Chris
On 05/16/2014 04:58 PM, Fred Smith wrote: I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. Another solution could be rsync with zfs or btrfs. -- Gruß, Christian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Fred Smith
Hi all! I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either USB3 or esata. Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also find backupPC at epel, backintime also at epel, kbackup. DejaDup looks interesting,

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Derrik Walker v2.0
On 05/16/2014 10:58 AM, Fred Smith wrote: Hi all! I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either USB3 or esata. Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also find backupPC at epel, backintime also

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: Hi all! I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either USB3 or esata. Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hi Fred, I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also find backupPC at epel, backintime also at epel, kbackup. I am using backuppc here to backup 5 servers to a dedicated backup-machine. In parallel, I am using http://storebackup.org/ . Storebackup uses hard links to reduce

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Alexander Danilov
Hi Fred, BackupPC is really good solution for Small Office/Home office enviroment. If you don't need anything complex but want to manage 2-3 workstation's backup than you can use BackupPC without any issues. 16.05.2014 19:33, Michael Schumacher ?: Hi Fred, I know there's rsync, which

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 5/16/2014 10:58 AM, Fred Smith wrote: Hi all! I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either USB3 or esata. Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also find backupPC at epel, backintime also

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 5/16/2014 8:58 AM, Fred Smith wrote: Hi all! I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either USB3 or esata. Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. snip There are a number of good ready made choices (backuppc seems to be the most suggested so far)

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Richer, Mark (CIV)
To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Centos backup tools Hi all! I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either USB3 or esata. Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also find backupPC at epel, backintime

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Steve Lindemann st...@marmot.org wrote: On 5/16/2014 8:58 AM, Fred Smith wrote: Hi all! I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either USB3 or esata. Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. snip There are a number

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Mauricio Tavares raubvo...@gmail.com wrote: There are a lot of people who like Amanda, but it might be a bit more time consuming to setup properly Amanda is sort-of tuned to work with tapes with the unique feature of being able to pre-estimate the sizes of full

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-05-16, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: The most unique thing about backuppc is that it has its own implementation of rsync that can work with the compressed archive files on the server and a stock remote rsync version accessing the target files. Or, it can use tar or samba

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: On 2014-05-16, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: The most unique thing about backuppc is that it has its own implementation of rsync that can work with the compressed archive files on the server

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 02:43:55PM -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Steve Lindemann st...@marmot.org wrote: On 5/16/2014 8:58 AM, Fred Smith wrote: Hi all! I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either USB3 or esata. Looking

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: BackupPC looks like a good tool, but... 1) it requires I configure Apache, and this is just my personal/home workstation where I don't really have any other use for Apache, and I don't really feel like having to

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Devin Reade
If you think that you'll expand out to more machines, you may also want to consider Bacula. It's a very stable and capable solution with enterprise grade features. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-28 Thread SilverTip257
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Mike Watson mi...@crucis.net wrote: That's my problem. I hitting a file size limit with dump and tar. Reformatting is the obvious solution so you can use one of the rsync-based

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-28 Thread Diego Sanchez
Or, you can use http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/ (or similar) CopyPaste: Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files. It now supports LVM2 and EXT4 extents. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. It can recursively copy entire folders. It can also

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-28 Thread Mike Watson
How well does it run under cron? mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 05/28/2013 11:54 AM, Diego Sanchez wrote: Or, you can use http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/ (or

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-28 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 05/27/2013 11:06 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 05/27/2013 02:13 PM, Mike Watson wrote: I've a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS 6.3 with paired 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. It works well. One

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/27/2013 11:13 AM, Mike Watson wrote: One filesystem is very large, 500GB, and contains numerous large files: SQL, docs, church libraries in ebook and digital form, plus stored videos of church services. note that SQL database files generally can't be backed up safely while the SQL

[CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
I've a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS 6.3 with paired 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. It works well. One filesystem is very large, 500GB, and contains numerous large files: SQL, docs, church

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 27 May 2013 13:13:30 -0500 Mike Watson wrote: Can any suggest a prog or a method to back up this filesystem? rsync -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Nux!
On 27.05.2013 19:13, Mike Watson wrote: I've a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS 6.3 with paired 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. It works well. One filesystem is very large, 500GB, and contains

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/27/2013 01:13 PM, Mike Watson wrote: Backup will be to an external (USB) removable HD. What file system is on that external HD? FAT32 has a 4GB limit for file size. -- Bob Nichols NOSPAM is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-05-27, Mike Watson mi...@crucis.net wrote: I've a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS 6.3 with paired 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. It works well. One filesystem is very large, 500GB, and

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Phelps, Matt
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: On 2013-05-27, Mike Watson mi...@crucis.net wrote: I've a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS 6.3 with paired

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
I've used rsync for remote file xfer of directory trees. It's been awhile, I'd forgotten about it. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 05/27/2013 01:24 PM, Nux! wrote: On

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
I'll check again, maybe NTSF. It's a singlepartition 1TB HD so it can't be FAT32. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 05/27/2013 01:43 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 05/27/2013

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 05/27/2013 02:13 PM, Mike Watson wrote: I've a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS 6.3 with paired 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. It works well. One filesystem is very large, 500GB, and contains

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Mike Watson mi...@crucis.net wrote: I'll check again, maybe NTSF. It's a singlepartition 1TB HD so it can't be FAT32. FAT32 can go to 2TB (you just can't format one that size in windows), but has the 4GB file size limit. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
That's my problem. I hitting a file size limit with dump and tar. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 05/27/2013 06:51 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 4:05 PM,

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-05-27, Mike Watson mi...@crucis.net wrote: I'll check again, maybe NTSF. It's a singlepartition 1TB HD so it can't be FAT32. Unless you have a desperate need for this disk to be readable by Windows, I would definitely make an ext3, ext4, or xfs filesystem on that USB drive. It is

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Mike Watson mi...@crucis.net wrote: That's my problem. I hitting a file size limit with dump and tar. Reformatting is the obvious solution so you can use one of the rsync-based backups - but if you really had to keep the FAT format you could use tar |split -b

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-19 Thread Alan McKay
So going back to Amanda and Bacula ... I seem to recall that Amanda uses standard tools on the back end like gtar and/or dump, is that right? What does Bacula use? Does it use one of the standard tools? Or does it have its own proprietary format that it uses? thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: So going back to Amanda and Bacula ... I seem to recall that Amanda uses standard tools on the back end like gtar and/or dump, is that right? Amanda needs its own client installation on the target, but uses the local gnutar

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