Hi Everyone
I want to backup a file constantly as it change.
Is it possible at all ?
Thanks
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Quoth Michael Ben-Nes:
Hi Everyone
I want to backup a file constantly as it change.
Is it possible at all ?
Well - yes and no. What you want is a snapshot capable filesystem.
There are a number of possible solutions to this - from a fully commercial
one (i.e. NetApps) through a fully manual
Michael
tricky - depends on the application - if the file isnt too large - you
might want to try LVM snapshots - they're pretty fast
and afaik preserve data integrity during the snapshot phase
if you're using MySQL innodb - there is ibbackup - not free but works well
danny
Michael Ben-Nes
On 8/4/05, Michael Ben-Nes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Everyone
I want to backup a file constantly as it change.
Is it possible at all ?
(re-posting to list)
I think DRBD (http://www.drbd.org/) should able to do that at the
block device level.
I searched for such solution myself a few
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 17:25 +0300, Michael Ben-Nes wrote:
I want to backup a file constantly as it change.
Is it possible at all ?
Your problem is somewhat similiar to that of filesystems (ext3,
ReiserFS) and databases.
They solve it by journalling the changes which were made to the file
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 18:30 +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 18:15 +0300, Omer Zak wrote:
They solve it by journalling the changes which were made to the file
since the last backup. So if you lose the original file, you can
recover it by retrieving the backup and
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Michael Ben-Nes wrote:
Hi Everyone
I want to backup a file constantly as it change.
Is it possible at all ?
please define what backup a file constantly means for you.
does it mean: having an exact _current_ copy all the time on two storage
systems (i.e. safety against
