On 09/26 02:09 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> > I have not looked at 'rear'.
>
> It's worth at least a look.
Thanks, I will take a look at it in my copious spare time. :) (but I do mean
to).
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Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
wrote:
> On 09/26 12:58 , Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Do you keep something that formally tracks the
>> lvm/mdraid/partition/filesystem layout on all of the machines you back
>> up so you know what you need to re-create?
>
> No, the partition lay
On 09/26 12:58 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> Do you keep something that formally tracks the
> lvm/mdraid/partition/filesystem layout on all of the machines you back
> up so you know what you need to re-create?
No, the partition layouts are pretty simple (generally a root partition of
10-30GB, plus 2-
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
wrote:
> On 09/26 09:39 , xpac wrote:
>> An entire server?
>
> Yep. I've done many disaster recoveries of entire linux servers which were
> backed up with rsync. Linux doesn't have the file-locking issues of Windows,
> so backups are just t
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:49 AM, xpac wrote:
> SO, I took this from their Wikipedia page "BackupPC is not a block-level
> backup system like Ghost4Linux but performs file-based backup and restore.
> Thus it is not suitable for backup of disk images or raw disk partitions"
>
> Hmmm, just thinkin
On 09/26 09:39 , xpac wrote:
> An entire server?
Yep. I've done many disaster recoveries of entire linux servers which were
backed up with rsync. Linux doesn't have the file-locking issues of Windows,
so backups are just taking copies of every file on the system, and recovery
is just a matter of b
Hi,
How about Clonezilla + Ceph cluster + btrfs?
Clonezilla - should be able to backup the whole hard disk as image
Ceph cluster - block based distributed storage, with object, file and block
based access for client.
btrfs - to use the deduplication feature to save space.
For ceph, you can start
