G'day guys
I've spent many hours with pencil and paper, I certain, but am asking in case
someone older-n-wiser can offer sage words:
If I want to backup a system for n days, and be able to recover any particular
days files the only way that I can see is to have a daily backup for n days.
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:54 PM, james j...@tigger.ws wrote:
I've spent many hours with pencil and paper, I certain, but am asking in case
someone older-n-wiser can offer sage words:
If I want to backup a system for n days, and be able to recover any particular
days files the only way that I
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:54 PM, james j...@tigger.ws wrote:
I've spent many hours with pencil and paper, I certain, but am asking in
case
someone older-n-wiser can offer sage words:
If I want to backup a system for n days, and be able to recover any
particular
days files the
Hi James,
In my experience, the most often restore of a file from backup is from
yesterday's tape.
Then it reduces from there.
It is also a simple question of what the business wants.
Some places I've worked for wanted a backup of everything and were
prepared to pay for it.
Others were
DaZZa dagi...@gmail.com writes:
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:54 PM, james j...@tigger.ws wrote:
I've spent many hours with pencil and paper, I certain, but am asking in
case someone older-n-wiser can offer sage words:
[...]
Yup, that's the biggest failings with most commercially acceptable
- Original Message -
From: james j...@tigger.ws
So the file created on day 2 backed up on day 3 is lost.
Can anybody point to the boat (I've missed) or confirm my vision.
Seems correct, and the primary reason why we moved to rdiff-backup and disk
based backup.
We get to keep effective
On 23 August 2010 09:26, Dave Kempe d...@sol1.com.au wrote:
- Original Message -
From: james j...@tigger.ws
So the file created on day 2 backed up on day 3 is lost.
Can anybody point to the boat (I've missed) or confirm my vision.
Seems correct, and the primary reason why we moved to
- Original Message -
From: Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com
How do you backup databases with that (I'm specifically interested to
hear about PostgresQL)? Snapshot the filesystem every day?
We have a 300Gb postgres database and growing rapidly, and I'm looking
for better ways to
On Monday 23 August 2010 09:26:11 Dave Kempe wrote:
Seems correct, and the primary reason why we moved to rdiff-backup and disk
based backup. We get to keep effective full versions for as long as we have
...
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/
and
I meant that we'd like to keep symlinks and restore them as they
where, rather than replacing the symlink with the original file or
loosing them all together.
On 11/13/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:06:28PM +1100, Eddie F wrote:
Hi all,
I've been
This one time, at band camp, Penedo wrote:
On 13/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pretty much everything keeps symlinks, cpio, tar, dump.
Just taking this opportunity to try to satisfy my curiosity.
I was wondering what's the state of dump(8) in the current world of multiple
Hi all,
I've been ask the question by a friend about what alternatives to cpio
there might be, for backing up to a tape drive and keeping symbolic
links preserved. Had a bit of a dig around on Google, but haven't had
much luck... Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Edd.
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On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:06:28PM +1100, Eddie F wrote:
Hi all,
I've been ask the question by a friend about what alternatives to cpio
there might be, for backing up to a tape drive and keeping symbolic
links preserved. Had a bit of a dig around on Google, but haven't had
much luck... Any
On 13/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pretty much everything keeps symlinks, cpio, tar, dump.
Just taking this opportunity to try to satisfy my curiosity.
I was wondering what's the state of dump(8) in the current world of multiple
file system types, a quick Google came up
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:12:10PM +1100, Penedo wrote:
On 13/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pretty much everything keeps symlinks, cpio, tar, dump.
Just taking this opportunity to try to satisfy my curiosity.
I was wondering what's the state of dump(8) in the current
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:21:30PM +1100, Eddie F wrote:
I meant that we'd like to keep symlinks and restore them as they
where, rather than replacing the symlink with the original file or
loosing them all together.
Then you don't have to do anything special.
matt
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Hello Sluggers,
Thanks very much to all of you that have reply my message, it has help me a
lot.
Regards
John
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