2016-01-12 12:05 GMT+01:00 Andreas Piening <andreas.pien...@gmail.com>: > - You can exclude the directories with the often altered PHP files. For me > this sounds like a machine of a WEB developer constantly editing PHP files. > In this case the source is probably already „backed up“ by a versioning > control system (git, mercurial, whatever…)
As wrote, I'm backingup also many many many mail servers. IMAP folders with Maildir (dovecot or any other software supporting Maildir format) are full of files that would be renamed when users read/access the email (at least, some flag would be added to the file named) or moved when users moves the email between folders. For example, new mails would be placed in /new/ directory. This directory *must* be backupped "as-is" When users access the email for the first time, the email file will be moved in /cur/ This directory *must* be backupped "as-is" When users set an imap flag (priority, read/unread, etc etc) the mail file is renamed. As we have more or less 500.000 mailboxes in about 50 servers (that I have to backup) most of these mailboxes are used night and day, even during backups hours, thus BPC/Rsync should be able to copy potentially mutable files with no complains Obviously I can't exclude mails from backups and actually BPC is marking all backups as failed as soon as one file change during the rsync procedure. > - You can use snapshots, whether they are LVM based or even easier ZFS > based. You can create and remove the snapshots with SSH commands in your PRE > and POST backup scripts for the client. I can't, i don't use LVM on all of my servers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
