Re: [Samba] Is Samba Shadowcopying can be used in Production Environement with more than 20 TB of data

2008-02-11 Thread Scott Lovenberg
On Feb 11, 2008 8:15 AM, Adam Tauno Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have something setup here (on a smaller scale) that might be useful. Our main file server rsync's with our backup server every hour (using hardlinks to keep snapshots). Since relatively little data changes

Re: [Samba] Is Samba Shadowcopying can be used in Production Environement with more than 20 TB of data

2008-02-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
We have something setup here (on a smaller scale) that might be useful. Our main file server rsync's with our backup server every hour (using hardlinks to keep snapshots). Since relatively little data changes between each sync, it is fairly fast (approx 5 minutes with no noticable

Re: [Samba] Is Samba Shadowcopying can be used in Production Environement with more than 20 TB of data

2008-02-09 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/6/2008, Michael Heydon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: We have something setup here (on a smaller scale) that might be useful. Our main file server rsync's with our backup server every hour (using hardlinks to keep snapshots). Since relatively little data changes between each sync, it is

Re: [Samba] Is Samba Shadowcopying can be used in Production Environement with more than 20 TB of data

2008-02-07 Thread Chuck Kollars
... there will be more than 20TB of data to be backup weekly which will take lots of hours. ... Check out the `rsync` spinoff of Samba. `Rsync`s basic idea is copy what's changed rather than just copying everything. It does so very well and very quickly. Copying only changed files can easily

[Samba] Is Samba Shadowcopying can be used in Production Environement with more than 20 TB of data

2008-02-06 Thread Ankush Grover
Hi Friends, I am currently using Samba on Centos 4.4 as a domain member of AD 2003 with each user having a quota of 2GB(no of users is around 2,000). Now the management wants to increase the quota to 10GB with this there will be more than 20TB of data to be backup weekly which will take lots of

Re: [Samba] Is Samba Shadowcopying can be used in Production Environement with more than 20 TB of data

2008-02-06 Thread Michael Heydon
Ankush Grover wrote: Hi Friends, I am currently using Samba on Centos 4.4 as a domain member of AD 2003 with each user having a quota of 2GB(no of users is around 2,000). Now the management wants to increase the quota to 10GB with this there will be more than 20TB of data to be backup weekly