Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

2007-09-21 Thread dhaneshk k
Hi ; A general question pls excuse me can any body suggest a backup mechanism for a server machine , which has a web portal , email server ,PgSQL database 4GB size , DNS server, Mailman , and a mediawiki applications running in a single machine . Can you suggest good solutions , for the

Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

2007-09-21 Thread Subhro Kar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, dhaneshk k sat at his 'pewter and typed on 09/21/07 13:55: Hi ; A general question pls excuse me can any body suggest a backup mechanism for a server machine , which has a web portal , email server ,PgSQL database 4GB size , DNS

Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

2007-09-21 Thread John Pettitt
dhaneshk k wrote: Hi ; A general question pls excuse me can any body suggest a backup mechanism for a server machine , which has a web portal , email server ,PgSQL database 4GB size , DNS server, Mailman , and a mediawiki applications running in a single machine . Can you suggest good

Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

2007-09-21 Thread Subhro Kar
is the right cheaper solution ? From: Subhro Kar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dhaneshk k [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:26:55 +0530 Hello, dhaneshk k sat at his 'pewter and typed on 09/21/07 13

Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

2007-09-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
A general question pls excuse me can any body suggest a backup mechanism for a server machine , which has a web portal , email server ,PgSQL database 4GB size , DNS server, Mailman , and a mediawiki applications running in a single machine . Can you suggest good solutions , for the server

Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

2007-09-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello DharneshK, You can try to create a Mirror using RAID. You can either create a software or a hardware (recommended) managed Mirror. In case of a disk both are software. while the software one you talking about is gmirror - very portable and easy to use contrary to BIOS-based hardware

Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

2007-09-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:14:25 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can try to create a Mirror using RAID. You can either create a software or a hardware (recommended) managed Mirror. In case of a disk both are software. while the software one you talking about is

Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

2007-09-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
raid is a good solution for avoiding data loss due to hard disk failure (at different rates depending on the raid type ). But it wont help you if someone accidentally or on purpose delete files. Raid will happily replicate the deletion across all your disks :) of course, that's why i use

Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

2007-09-21 Thread Michel Le Cocq
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar a écrit : of course, that's why i use rsync, and use cp -lpR to make multiple generations on backup server every day. i delete the oldest when there are out of space. but gmirror+ggated/c is a good idea for those having more than

Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

2007-09-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi ; A general question pls excuse me can any body suggest a backup mechanism for a server machine , which has a web portal , email server ,PgSQL database 4GB size , DNS server, Mailman , and a mediawiki applications running in a single machine . Sounds like a fairly small server.