On 12/18/06, Raja Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for sharing. > > On 12/18/06, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I backup OpenBSD/FreeBSD/Debian Servers with it currently. > > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/limitations.html > > says that NTFS acls are not supported. You cannot restore > your "C:" using backuppc. >
I rarely take backups to restore partitions as such. Except in one case where I install MS Windows in a Computer wit all the software needed. I take an image of the partition and resotre the image back. > In *nix, are you able to restore your root partition using > backuppc? Does it handle file meta-data like mode, ownership, > acls, access/modified times, hard links, dev files...? > I don't backup root partitions at all. Rerely the root partiton contents change in my set up and I have RAID 1 configured on Servers to protect them from Disk Failure. All I backup is the /etc where configuration changes at times. Also all the Data portion like "www' files. Subversion Repositories etc. The Subversion Repositories are backed up at a time when nobody access it. Mysql backupps are done ideally on the slave with mysqldump, tar.bzip2,rsync scripts. > I was using rsnapshot for backing up user data. But rsync > has inherent limitations while syncing ~300k files in one > go. Rsync has to keep every filename and inode info in RAM > to check for hard links, and when run on a large directory > tree you eventually run out of RAM and break your backup. > Any backup app that internally calls the rsync binary suffers > from this limitation. > It may be that I haven't faced such Issues yet :-) > > rdiff-backup does better... however, I only backup user data > with it. I'm still looking for an easy way to backup entire > *nix and Windows systems. > Eagerly waiting for your Findings. I did read at some place about a person taking Disk images as backups and storing it in a Version control system. If it is feasible to do that it would be great I feel but don't know how it will work with mysql database Directories and other directories whare data is changing very fast. Kind Regards Siju _______________________________________________ bsd-india mailing list [email protected] http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india
