> If you consider using ZFS as BackupPC's filesystem In relation to other projects, I've done a bit of research, and got interested in Nexenta, however even before the Oracle debacle I wasn't quite ready to invest the additional learning curve - much less likely now. . .
And just a comment, but keeping "time machine" snapshots at the filesystem level of BackupPC's "time machine snapshots" filestore, wow would probably open up a wormhole big enough to drive a Tardis through! 8-O Back to serious - these are mission-critical data backups, so I'm defaulting to conservative - note this part of my goal: >> What I'm really looking for is to be able to just mount the resulting >> filesystem on any ol' livecd Which your idea doesn't address. But I *did* say >> Any and all feedback/suggestions welcome. so thanks! ----------------------- If no one's worked with FSArchiver, then how about feedback on what y'all would choose between my current top two (actually 2.5) choices? A - rsync the pool over + BackupPC_tarPCCopy the hardlinks dirstruc to a temp location and then unpack it. I need to work on my scripting skills anyway 8-( B - full partition clone via something like dc3dd or Acronis True Image Feature request: just MHO, but there really should be an option (both Web and CLI) to just copy the whole cahuna over, as long as there's an appropriate target device mounted. I can't imagine too many people are dumping this stuff to tape?? ============= On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Jonathan Schaeffer <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 09/12/2010 06:55, [email protected] a écrit : >> I've been investigating how to backup BackupPC's filesystem, >> specifically the tree with all the hard links (BTW what's the right >> name for it, the one that's not the pool?) >> >> The goal is to be able to bring a verified-good copy of the whole >> volume off-site via a big cahuna sata drive. > > I'm answering not exactly to your question, but you might be interested > in this : > > If you consider using ZFS as BackupPC's filesystem, there is the awesome > combo : > > zfs snapshot # makes a snapshot of you filesystem, for instance on a > daily bases > > zfs send snapshot | ssh backback "zfs receive" > > and your filesystem will be exported on host backback AND you will be > able to travel in time by munting the daily snapshots. > > Jonathan > >> >> I don't have enough RAM (or time!) for rsync -H and cp -a >> >> I was originally looking at block-level partition imaging tools, from >> mdmraid (RAID1'ing to a removable drive) to dd to Acronis. >> >> I'm also looking at BackupPC_tarPCCopy, which seems great, but >> >> What I'm really looking for is to be able to just mount the resulting >> filesystem on any ol' livecd, without having to restore anything, >> reconstruct LVM/RAID etc complexities just to get at the data - the >> source volume is an LV running on a RAID6 array, but I want the target >> partition to be a normal one. >> >> I've come across this tool: http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page >> >> Does anyone have experience with it? >> >> Any and all feedback/suggestions welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
