On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:27:05PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> So I feel a need to start backing up my servers. To that end, I've decided
> that it's easier for me to grab an external USB drive instead of a tape. It
Buy at least two, and keep one off-site.
> would seem dump/restore are t
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:20:28AM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
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> On 24-May-07, at 3:16 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote:
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> >>2 x system space would be enough for a full dump plus plenty of
> >>increments, I'd say. No? Is there a rule of thumb? 3x? 4x?
> >
> >That depends how much your file syste
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:10:43AM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
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> On 24-May-07, at 12:33 AM, Doug Hardie wrote:
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> >
> >On May 23, 2007, at 19:03, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>On 23-May-07, at 9:23 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
> >>
> >>>The criteria for selecting a backup approach is not the ba
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:03:40PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
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> On 23-May-07, at 9:23 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
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> >The criteria for selecting a backup approach is not the backup
> >methodology but the restore methodology.
>
> Excellent point.
>
> Perhaps I'm asking the wrong question, so l
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:27:05PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> So I feel a need to start backing up my servers. To that end, I've
> decided that it's easier for me to grab an external USB drive instead
> of a tape. It would seem dump/restore are the tools of choice. My
> backup strategy
On 24-May-07, at 3:43 AM, Doug Hardie wrote:
Rsync will leave you with a duplicate of the drive. You could
pretty much boot off it and run. You would need to configure the
drive and install a boot loader though.
The boot off and run is more in-line with what I want to do, so I
will go
On 24-May-07, at 3:16 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote:
2 x system space would be enough for a full dump plus plenty of
increments, I'd say. No? Is there a rule of thumb? 3x? 4x?
That depends how much your file system change. If every ficle change
befor the incremental run, dump 1 will be equal t
> 2 x system space would be enough for a full dump plus plenty of
> increments, I'd say. No? Is there a rule of thumb? 3x? 4x?
That depends how much your file system change. If every ficle change
befor the incremental run, dump 1 will be equal to dump 2, and 2x will
be enough for just dump0
On 24-May-07, at 12:33 AM, Doug Hardie wrote:
On May 23, 2007, at 19:03, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
On 23-May-07, at 9:23 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
The criteria for selecting a backup approach is not the backup
methodology but the restore methodology.
Excellent point.
Perhaps I'm asking the wr
On May 23, 2007, at 19:03, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
On 23-May-07, at 9:23 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
The criteria for selecting a backup approach is not the backup
methodology but the restore methodology.
Excellent point.
Perhaps I'm asking the wrong question, so let me try it this way
instead
Hi,
> So I feel a need to start backing up my servers. To that end, I've
> decided that it's easier for me to grab an external USB drive instead
> of a tape.
It's certainly faster, easier and cheaper now days.
> It would seem dump/restore are the tools of choice.
This really repends of w
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 21:03:40 Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> On 23-May-07, at 9:23 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
> > The criteria for selecting a backup approach is not the backup
> > methodology but the restore methodology.
>
> Excellent point.
>
> Perhaps I'm asking the wrong question, so let me try it this
On 23-May-07, at 9:23 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
The criteria for selecting a backup approach is not the backup
methodology but the restore methodology.
Excellent point.
Perhaps I'm asking the wrong question, so let me try it this way
instead:
I'm looking for a backup solution that I can re
On May 23, 2007, at 16:27, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
So I feel a need to start backing up my servers. To that end, I've
decided that it's easier for me to grab an external USB drive
instead of a tape. It would seem dump/restore are the tools of
choice. My backup strategy is pretty much "I do
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
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 ex
So I feel a need to start backing up my servers. To that end, I've
decided that it's easier for me to grab an external USB drive instead
of a tape. It would seem dump/restore are the tools of choice. My
backup strategy is pretty much "I don't want to be screwed if my RAID
goes away". Th
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 00:36:01 -0700, Ryan Merrick wrote
> admin wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need some help setting up a tape backup system. I have two FreeBSD machines
> > and on external SCSI Onstream ADR50. Got any clues how I can start a weekly
> > back up plan here?
> >
> > Thanks in adva
admin wrote:
Hi,
I need some help setting up a tape backup system. I have two FreeBSD machines
and on external SCSI Onstream ADR50. Got any clues how I can start a weekly
back up plan here?
Thanks in advance,
Noah
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> Hi,
>
> I need some help setting up a tape backup system. I have two FreeBSD machines
> and on external SCSI Onstream ADR50. Got any clues how I can start a weekly
> back up plan here?
It depends a little on the size of your disk compared to your tape
capacity. It also depends on how mu
admin wrote:
Hi,
I need some help setting up a tape backup system. I have two FreeBSD machines
and on external SCSI Onstream ADR50. Got any clues how I can start a weekly
back up plan here?
Thanks in advance,
Noah
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Hi,
I need some help setting up a tape backup system. I have two FreeBSD machines
and on external SCSI Onstream ADR50. Got any clues how I can start a weekly
back up plan here?
Thanks in advance,
Noah
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