Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-18 Thread Nataraj
On 12/16/2011 06:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Nilsson jnils...@uci.edu wrote: From the little I've read it seems to be very similar to BackupPC. I think the only thing they have in common is that they both use rsync as the transfer agent. Well, they

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Nataraj incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote: Does backupPC have the abilty to easily be configured so that each daily incremental and each weekly full backup are stored on different drives, i.e. to rotate drives based on your backup schedule and not just when a

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-16 Thread Alan McKay
OK, I'm getting ready to finally dig into replacing our backups. Lots of good info in this thread -but so far no mention of rsnapshot Any comment on it ? Our environment is all Linux except for Mac desktops which would like have a different solution for backups. From the little I've read it

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I'm getting ready to finally dig into replacing our backups.  Lots of good info in this thread -but so far no mention of rsnapshot Any comment on it ?   Our environment is all Linux except for Mac desktops which

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nilsson
good info in this thread -but so far no mention of rsnapshot Any comment on it ? we use rsnapshot. i think of it basically as a wrapper around rsync. it isn't a fully featured backup solution just on it's own, but it is a great tool. we have written a bash shell script wrapper around rsnapshot

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Nilsson jnils...@uci.edu wrote: From the little I've read it seems to be very similar to BackupPC. I think the only thing they have in common is that they both use rsync as the transfer agent. Well, they are both perl scripts... Backuppc just has

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Devin Reade
--On Thursday, December 08, 2011 01:06:10 PM -0500 Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have any experience with this, which just came to my attention http://www.arkeia.com/en/solutions/open-source-solutions Yes, I've used it (albiet about 8 years back or so), as well as many other

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: Being bit by Arkeia (and previously Amanda and others) Errr, what? Amanda is a little cumbersome to set up, but it doesn't bite. If gnutar works, amanda should work or tell you why. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Devin Reade
--On Friday, December 09, 2011 11:48:49 AM -0600 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Errr, what? Amanda is a little cumbersome to set up, but it doesn't bite. If gnutar works, amanda should work or tell you why. As I said, it's been at least 8 years since I dealt with Amanda. Going by

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: --On Friday, December 09, 2011 11:48:49 AM -0600 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Errr, what?   Amanda is a little cumbersome to set up, but it doesn't bite.  If gnutar works, amanda should work or tell you why. As I

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Devin Reade
--On Friday, December 09, 2011 01:03:18 PM -0600 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be happy if I never see a tape again. Likewise. Skipping forward to the present, I'm doing normal backups in Bacula to virtual volumes on hard disk. As for offsite/archival backups, using the

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: --On Friday, December 09, 2011 01:03:18 PM -0600 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be happy if I never see a tape again. Likewise. Skipping forward to the present, I'm doing normal backups in Bacula to virtual

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Devin Reade
--On Friday, December 09, 2011 02:59:08 PM -0600 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I doubt if it can match the bandwidth efficiency of backuppc with rsync as the transport (not sure - how does the bacula agent deal with growing files, or big files with small changes?). There is a

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-09 Thread Barry Brimer
Anyone have any experience with this, which just came to my attention http://www.arkeia.com/en/solutions/open-source-solutions I have used Arkeia for a few customers .. it works well. Do you have any specific questions about it? Barry ___ CentOS

[CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun StorageTek SL24 tape unit backing it all up. OSes are a combination of

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Lars Hecking
NetWorker Management Console version 3.5.1.Build.269 based on NetWorker version 7.5.1.Build.269 The pickle we are in right now is that this software is Java based, and stops working at a very specific release of JRE (1.6.26 or something like that). We still have some machines

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun StorageTek SL24 tape unit backing it all up.  OSes are a combination of RHEL and CentOS.  The software we are using is EMC    NetWorker Management

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Dec 8, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun StorageTek SL24 tape unit backing it all up. OSes are a combination of RHEL and CentOS. The

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Philippe Naudin
Le jeu 08 déc 2011 09:43:21 CET, Les Mikesell a écrit: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun StorageTek SL24 tape unit backing it all up.  OSes are a combination of RHEL and CentOS.  

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Philippe Naudin philippe.nau...@supagro.inra.fr wrote: If you want mostly-online backups with perhaps an occasional tar archive, it will be hard to beat backuppc because of it's storage pooling and ability to run over rsync or smb with no remote agents. For

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
I'm pretty sure I saw a note on the networker list that 7.6 SP3 works with update 27, update 29, and java 7. Well we don't have a support contract - is it a free upgrade? -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread m . roth
Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS You missed rsync. snip mark ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:31 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS You missed rsync. Rsync is another one-off approach where you have to roll your own

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:31 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS You missed rsync. Rsync is another one-off approach where you have

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS You missed rsync. Rsync is another one-off approach where you have to roll your own

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
Anyone have any experience with this, which just came to my attention http://www.arkeia.com/en/solutions/open-source-solutions -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Rob Kampen
Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:31 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS You missed rsync. Rsync is another one-off approach where

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
I use backuppc, but find that in order to restore one has to be or know the admin user password. There appears to be no way to open this up to users to directly see and restore from the file tree that it manages. Huh? No. Users can do their own restores from the web interface without

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: I use backuppc, but find that in order to restore one has to be or know the admin user password. There appears to be no way to open this up to users to directly see and restore from the file tree that it

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Mikael Fridh
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/08/11 11:26 AM, Mikael Fridh wrote: For more redundancy and performance, add more ZFS boxes, do replication between them. what zfs replication is that? last I heard, the only supported replication was physical block replication of the underlying device(s) (avs in solaris cluster, drbd

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Mikael Fridh
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:38 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 12/08/11 11:26 AM, Mikael Fridh wrote: For more redundancy and performance, add more ZFS boxes, do replication between them. what zfs replication is that?  last I heard, the only supported replication was physical

[CentOS] Backup live system

2011-10-20 Thread ken
Though I've worked with enterprise systems, I'm not familiar with FOOS backup software. Which of those recommended would allow me to backup a system while users are active on it? If it matters the system uses LVM. I'd also like to be able to avoid needing the network if possible. That

Re: [CentOS] Backup live system

2011-10-20 Thread m . roth
ken wrote: Though I've worked with enterprise systems, I'm not familiar with FOOS backup software. Which of those recommended would allow me to backup a system while users are active on it? If it matters the system uses LVM. I'd also like to be able to avoid needing the network if

Re: [CentOS] Backup live system

2011-10-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:52 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: Though I've worked with enterprise systems, I'm not familiar with FOOS backup software.  Which of those recommended would allow me to backup a system while users are active on it?  If it matters the system uses LVM.    I'd also

Re: [CentOS] Backup live system

2011-10-20 Thread Benjamin Hackl
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:52:15 -0400 ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: If it matters the system uses LVM. I'd also like to be able to avoid needing the network if possible. That is, I'd plug in a disk into a USB port and backup the system onto that... again, while the system is live. If it should

Re: [CentOS] Backup live system

2011-10-20 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:52 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: Though I've worked with enterprise systems, I'm not familiar with FOOS backup software.  Which of those recommended would allow me to backup a system while users are active on it?  If it matters the system uses LVM.    I'd also

[CentOS] Backup and restore for CentOS 5.5

2011-10-03 Thread Denis
Hi - I have a NFS/NIS server environment running CentOS 5.5 on a Dell Optiplex 240. I would like to back it up and then move it to a new machine. Couple of questions: 1. This is an older computer Dell Optiplex 240 that I am unable to connect a USB drive to. In the linux rescue environment

Re: [CentOS] Backup and restore for CentOS 5.5

2011-10-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/03/11 1:16 PM, Denis wrote: Hi - I have a NFS/NIS server environment running CentOS 5.5 on a Dell Optiplex 240. I would like to back it up and then move it to a new machine. Couple of questions: 1. This is an older computer Dell Optiplex 240 that I am unable to connect a USB drive to.

Re: [CentOS] Backup and restore for CentOS 5.5

2011-10-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Denis denis.bec...@mnsu.edu wrote: Hi - I have a NFS/NIS server environment running CentOS 5.5 on a Dell Optiplex 240. I would like to back it up and then move it to a new machine. You don't mention the type of the new machine. If it is not identical hardware

Re: [CentOS] Backup and restore for CentOS 5.5

2011-10-03 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Denis denis.bec...@mnsu.edu wrote: Hi - I have a NFS/NIS server environment running CentOS 5.5 on a Dell Optiplex 240. I would like to back it up and then move it to a new machine. You don't mention the type of the new machine. If it is

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-03-20 Thread madu...@gmail.com
Recall.. I run now the following task every day tar -cvzf /rescue/website-$(date +%u).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* I want now to move these files from the local server to a remote server via ftp. any help. Thanks On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, cpol...@surewest.net wrote: madu...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-03-20 Thread Pinter Tibor
On 03/20/2011 08:31 AM, madu...@gmail.com wrote: Recall.. I run now the following task every day tar -cvzf /rescue/website-$(date +%u).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* I want now to move these files from the local server to a remote server via ftp. any help. Thanks man lftp t

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread madu...@gmail.com
Should I add to my tar the following option -p, --preserve-permissions extract all protection information tar -cvzfp .. Thanks On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:10 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: madu...@gmail.com madu...@gmail.com I want to create bash script to have a

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread cpolish
madu...@gmail.com wrote: Should I add to my tar the following option -p, --preserve-permissions extract all protection information tar -cvzfp .. Thanks On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:10 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: madu...@gmail.com madu...@gmail.com I

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread madu...@gmail.com
I have reallocated it to /home thx On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, cpol...@surewest.net wrote: madu...@gmail.com wrote: Should I add to my tar the following option  -p, --preserve-permissions               extract all protection information tar -cvzfp .. Thanks On Tue, Jan 25, 2011

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, madu...@gmail.com wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: madu...@gmail.com madu...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] backup script I have reallocated it to /home thx On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, cpol...@surewest.net wrote: madu...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread m . roth
madu...@gmail.com wrote: I have reallocated it to /home thx Please stop top posting. Relocated it to /home, as in /home/backup? Don't clutter your base directories, that's very bad practice. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread madu...@gmail.com
home folder for backup /backup On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: madu...@gmail.com wrote: I have reallocated it to /home thx Please stop top posting. Relocated it to /home, as in /home/backup? Don't clutter your base directories, that's very bad practice.      

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread m . roth
madu...@gmail.com wrote: home folder for backup /backup On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: madu...@gmail.com wrote: I have reallocated it to /home thx Please stop top posting. Relocated it to /home, as in /home/backup? Don't clutter your base directories, that's

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 1:07 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] backup script madu...@gmail.com wrote: home folder for backup /backup

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-28 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM, madu...@gmail.com madu...@gmail.com wrote: home folder for backup  /backup This is a tactical problem. If you actually read the File System Hierarchy guidelines, you'll see that it should be in /var as dynamic, volatile content, probably undar /var/backup. If

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-25 Thread Edo
Hi, Try the ff: On 1/25/11 4:31 PM, madu...@gmail.com wrote: I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running on linux /var/www/htdocs/* local on the same box on different directory I am thinking to do a local backup using crontab (snapshot my web) tar -cvzf

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-25 Thread Nelson
You could create a script and have a variable date --date=5 days ago append to your tar file and after that, combine it with if syntax. If match, then rm. HTH On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:31 PM, madu...@gmail.com madu...@gmail.comwrote: I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-25 Thread madu...@gmail.com
Am thinking to have this in my script #!/bin/bash tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* find /tmp/website/website*.tgz -ctime +5 -exec rm {} \; # removes older then 5 days crontab it 30 6 * * * /mypath/myscript On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Nelson

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-25 Thread Cameron Kerr
On 25/01/11 21:56, madu...@gmail.com wrote: Am thinking to have this in my script #!/bin/bash tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* find /tmp/website/website*.tgz -ctime +5 -exec rm {} \; # removes older then 5 days That should do in your case. Though, in

Re: [CentOS] backup script

2011-01-25 Thread John Doe
From: madu...@gmail.com madu...@gmail.com I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running on linux /var/www/htdocs/* local on the same box on different directory I am thinking to do a local backup using crontab (snapshot my web) tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date

[CentOS] backup script

2011-01-24 Thread madu...@gmail.com
I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running on linux /var/www/htdocs/* local on the same box on different directory I am thinking to do a local backup using crontab (snapshot my web) tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* This command will

[CentOS] Backup KVM / Qemu on Virt-Manager

2010-04-07 Thread Georghy
Hi guys, I have a CentOS system with virt-manager installed on it, the system is installed on a LVM partition with one PV for swap and one for /, I only use KVM and qemu virtual machine on this server, I want to do a backup from my Virtual Machines on this server should I use LVM backup or an

Re: [CentOS] Backup KVM / Qemu on Virt-Manager

2010-04-07 Thread Jim Wildman
This is what lvm snapshots are for. Make a snapshot, back it up, delete it. VM keeps running on the 'real' lv. On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Georghy wrote: Hi guys, I have a CentOS system with virt-manager installed on it, the system is installed on a LVM partition with one PV for swap and one for

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24,

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Gavin Carr
Have you read Brackup::Manual::Overview? Your questions are all answered in the man pages there or linked from there. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:21:47PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: Brackup will backup to local disk,

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Err.. raid is NOT backup solution. Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine. Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share user access load. Which in turn

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote: On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Err.. raid is NOT backup solution. Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine. Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share user

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:33 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: [1] Changeset and data/system model over time relation mapping for an adaptive system sizing feedback loop! ( how'se that for buzzword injection! ) --- Well if you run vacum on a Postgres DB then all that goes to the crapper... So

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread John Doe
From: Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com is it possible with brackup to back it up to a different server on the same lan instead of /backup . Is there any documentation on the same . It apparently support: Brackup::Target::Amazon backup to Amazon's S3 service

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Agnello George wrote: The requirement fro backup is not primarily for HDD failure , but human error failure . In case one of our user ( eg: the COO with huge mailbox size has delete all his certain very important mails, and he want to recover them , the contacts us as we are supposed to

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Karanbir Singh wrote: On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Err.. raid is NOT backup solution. Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine. Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share user

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Benjamin Smith
Years ago, I set up a backup tool that wrapped rsync. It has faithfully and reliably backed up a dozen hosts and too many TB of data to mention, offsite, automatically saving as many backup points as disk space allows. You're certainly welcome to try it!

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-25 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Benjamin Smith li...@benjamindsmith.comwrote: Years ago, I set up a backup tool that wrapped rsync. It has faithfully and reliably backed up a dozen hosts and too many TB of data to mention, offsite, automatically saving as many backup points as

[CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . We have tried dar , rsync, rdiff and impasync . But its is not

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: Hi We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the  /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD  of total 250 GB space )  . We have tried

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread David Hrbáč
Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . We have tried dar

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hrbáč hrbac.c...@seznam.cz wrote: Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hrbáč hrbac.c...@seznam.cz wrote: Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): Hi We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the  /var/spool/imap partition as 150

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
2010/2/24 Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi 2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Hrbáč hrbac.c...@seznam.cz wrote: Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: Dne 24.2.2010 10:00, Agnello George napsal(a): We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fiwrote: 2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38:32AM +0100, David Hrbáč wrote: Dne 24.2.2010

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
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Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
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Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fiwrote: 2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: You might want to try

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/2/24 Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 24,

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Agnello George wrote: Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . We have tried dar , rsync, rdiff and

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/24/2010 01:07 PM, Agnello George wrote: yes just spoke to my senior and confrimed that this was alreday tried out a delayed replication is possible . but the current suitation is we need to take backup on the same server on a different partition /backup :( you can replicate to a

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Agnello George wrote: Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . You've stated things in terms of

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/24 Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net: Agnello George wrote: Hi We have  an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the  /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD  of total 250 GB

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/24/2010 1:31 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) . You've stated things in

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Eero Volotinen wrote: 2010/2/24 Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net: Agnello George wrote: Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential backup on to /backup partition ( a different

Re: [CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

2010-02-24 Thread Agnello George
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Eero Volotinen wrote: 2010/2/24 Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net: Agnello George wrote: Hi We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with the /var/spool/imap partition as

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-18 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 5:14 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server I was thinking about your long term here. Make sure to use LVM

[CentOS] Backup solution-Solved (Was: Backup server)

2010-01-18 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Arturas Skauronas Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 6:50 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server Guys, BackupPC works like the proverbial charm. Thank you very much

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:14 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server Yes, but if you use the epel rpm, either mount it at /var/lib/BackupPC

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
Sorin Srbu wrote: Today I have five 500GB-disks raided on linux machine. Remove one for parity and I have 2TB of real space available. Doing a 0+1, ie 1TB, would indeed be better as performance goes, but 1TB of space, well, it just isn't enough unfortunately. As it is now, the 2TB

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Franz Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:26 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server I was thinking about your long term here. Make sure to use LVM to create

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Sorin Srbu wrote: So you need to be able to walk the fine line between these two. I'm trying. Something it just isn't enough. Although the boss has a soft spot for linux, as he also heads the CADD (Computer Aided Drug Design)-group. To put it into perspective, ask the manager how much

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Franz Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:26 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server I was thinking about your long term here. Make sure

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Sorin Srbu wrote: Yes, but if you use the epel rpm, either mount it at /var/lib/BackupPC or put a symlink there before the install. If you install from the sourceforge source there is an install script that modifies the location so you can put things where you want, but the rpm packages

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