Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-19 Thread Rainer Duffner
CentOS List schrieb: >> For a speedy backup, could put the db on LVM. Then your procedure >> > would > >> be shutdown/freeze db, make lv snapshot, startup/unfreeze db, >> rsync/backup data, remove snapshot. >> > That's what I'd suggest too, but

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread CentOS List
>> >>> For a speedy backup, could put the db on LVM. Then your procedure would >> >>> be shutdown/freeze db, make lv snapshot, startup/unfreeze db, >> >>> rsync/backup data, remove snapshot. >> >> That's what I'd suggest too, but be warned that performance on that >> >> database (if gets to be of

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:57 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > on 2-18-2009 1:45 PM Scott Silva spake the following: > > on 2-18-2009 1:36 PM Ian Forde spake the following: > >> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:35 -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote: > >>> For a speedy backup, could put the db on LVM. Then your procedure wou

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-18-2009 1:45 PM Scott Silva spake the following: > on 2-18-2009 1:36 PM Ian Forde spake the following: >> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:35 -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote: >>> For a speedy backup, could put the db on LVM. Then your procedure would >>> be shutdown/freeze db, make lv snapshot, startup/unfre

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-18-2009 1:36 PM Ian Forde spake the following: > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:35 -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote: >> For a speedy backup, could put the db on LVM. Then your procedure would >> be shutdown/freeze db, make lv snapshot, startup/unfreeze db, >> rsync/backup data, remove snapshot. > > That's

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:35 -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote: > For a speedy backup, could put the db on LVM. Then your procedure would > be shutdown/freeze db, make lv snapshot, startup/unfreeze db, > rsync/backup data, remove snapshot. That's what I'd suggest too, but be warned that performance on that

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Toby Bluhm
Joost Waversveld wrote: > > 1. > === > RAID IS NO BACKUP! RAID is only to survive hardware failure of the hard > disk(s) (and only if you don't use RAID0!). > > Other people are mentioning the Master/Slave setup. This will do if you > just need one up to date backup for the coincidence the co

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Joost Waversveld
>> Or just use a RAID array (eg software RAID in mirror mode: RAID1). >> > > RAID IS NOT BACKUP > > To the OP: > It would be helpful if you were more descriptive about what you are > trying to accomplish. Are you worried about disk failures? Are you > worried about the whole system failing?

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread John R Pierce
CentOS List wrote: > Hi, > > I had a cfml application running on mysql database. Can some suggest a > realtime backup solution via ftp say every 5mins without damaging the > database? > do your backups have to have some level of history ? or just one backup as of the last snapshot interval

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread nate
CentOS List wrote: > Hi, > > I had a cfml application running on mysql database. Can some suggest a > realtime backup solution via ftp say every 5mins without damaging the > database? Using ftp every 5 minutes implies a pretty small database, like others have suggested I would suggest setting up a

[CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Robert Heller wrote: >> How big and what engine is the db to be secured? >>> every 5mins >> Backing up that often doesn't make sense to me. If you need to have it >> that frequently you better go for a slave or write to two backends. I have to wonder when I see these kind o

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:31:18 +0100 CentOS mailing list > wrote: >> >> CentOS List wrote on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:30:16 +0800: >> >> > every 5mins >> >> How big and what engine is the db to be secured? >> Backing up that often doesn't make sen

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:31:18 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > CentOS List wrote on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:30:16 +0800: > > > every 5mins > > How big and what engine is the db to be secured? > Backing up that often doesn't make sense to me. If you need to have it > that frequently you better

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
CentOS List wrote on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:30:16 +0800: > every 5mins How big and what engine is the db to be secured? Backing up that often doesn't make sense to me. If you need to have it that frequently you better go for a slave or write to two backends. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany G

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Fabian Arrotin
CentOS List wrote: > Hi, > > I had a cfml application running on mysql database. Can some suggest a > realtime backup solution via ftp say every 5mins without damaging the > database? > > Thanks > > regards > Sorry but i see two conflicting ideas in the same sentence : 'realtime' and 'every 5

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Linux Advocate
- Original Message > From: John Doe > To: CentOS mailing list > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:40:48 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] realtime backup > > > From: CentOS List > > I had a cfml application running on mysql database. Can some suggest a >

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread John Doe
From: CentOS List > I had a cfml application running on mysql database. Can some suggest a > realtime backup solution via ftp say every 5mins without damaging the > database? Wouldn't a simple mysqldump work? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqldump.html JD __

[CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-17 Thread CentOS List
Hi, I had a cfml application running on mysql database. Can some suggest a realtime backup solution via ftp say every 5mins without damaging the database? Thanks regards ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi