On 4/30/2011 7:22 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> *** Yes, you're right. I think I just got confused there for a bit. So the
> only missing piece for me is some sort of rolling expiration so things don't
> get full due to having too many snaps...
I store snapshots with a date as part of the name
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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:r...@karlsbakk.net]
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 5:26 PM
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rsync & snapshot backups?
> OTOH, if you want the entire directory /foo/bar, you might need to
> copy f
> OTOH, if you want the entire directory /foo/bar, you might need to
> copy from
> several different snapshots. The rolling snapshot idea works fine,
> except I
> need to add some sort of code to expire the "oldest" snaps.
if you used rsync to copy the data to a dataset, or filsystem, and then
sn
Actually, my previous backup system *was* amanda. I ran it on the ubuntu
server, backing up itself and a centos5 server, using vtapes, with the
storage for those being either an NFS or iSCSI volume on a NAS. The only
bad thing about that is the dumps take awhile to run, and restoring
something i
> Baccula would perhaps be overkill, but get you what you're after in
> terms of expirations, pre & post scripts, etc. A bit more complex to
> set up for small onsie and twosie networks but then again once done
> it's pretty much autopilot from there on out.
We have Bacula running smoothly with 50
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 14:40 -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> Here's a question for y'all. I have two linux servers I want to back up
> to my OI NAS/SAN. What I've been playing with is a simple script that
> runs on the OI box, and does an ssh to each of the linux servers, with
> the command
> which seem to do all of what I want. Frex: snapadm.pl, which creates
> rolling backups on daily/weekly/monthly basis with retention times -
> so
> far so good, but it doesn't actually do any backing up. I also found
> rsbackup (based on freebsd?) which does the backing up, including
> snapshottin
On 04/26/11 12:20 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote:
> On 2011-04-23 16:06, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have compiled ntfs-3g under OpenIndiana 148 and it works just fine.
>> Also, I have made some patches and I have send them to the developers
>> for
>> review. If anyone wants to test the
