On 24/05/07, Howard Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> - Other folks dumping to a hard drive at night? Care to share any of
> your experiences/rationale?
Not with dump/restore. After using amanda and a tape drive for eons I'm
now happy with a bacula solution to backup 2 freebsds and a windows
machine. It does incrementals except on Saturday night when it
alternates between a differential (sort of a mass incremental from the
last full) and a full backup to a cheap IDE drive. Every Sunday I copy
the IDE drive to a USB drive and take it offsite and bring back another
one.
After restoring from scratch - power supply frying the entire RAID array
on my desktop -STABLE machine - I think the advantages of dump are
certainly there but for my apps, where I don't have any huge sparse
files or a lot of hard links other than whatever gets installed with a
fresh install (if anything) to worry about - they're outweighed by the
convenience of bacula where I can go back to a point in time. YMMV...
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We have something similar, we use rsnapshot (/usr/ports/sysutils/rsnapshot/)
http://www.rsnapshot.org/
The first rsnapshot takes up the full amount of space and rsnapshot
there after only takes up the space of those files that have changed.
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