Author: Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey AT BUC DOT com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 10:14:55 -0400
First, if you are changing topics, please create a new thread rather than replying to an existing thread. This question is asked on a regular basis. You should be able to find lots of into in the mai
Hi list. I would like to ask which is the simplest yet effective way to dump backuppc stuff (mainly __TOPDIR__) eg to a removable hard disk that will be used in a disaster recovery scenario where the
Hi list. I would like to ask which is the simplest yet effective way to dump backuppc stuff (mainly __TOPDIR__) eg to a removable hard disk that will be used in a disaster recovery scenario where the
Hi list. I would like to ask which is the simplest yet effective way to dump backuppc stuff (mainly __TOPDIR__) eg to a removable hard disk that will be used in a disaster recovery scenario where the
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:31:46 -0500
If your archive is small and you have plenty of RAM you may be able to do it with rsync -aH, but there is a limit to what you can copy in a reasonable amount of time because there is not an efficient
I am tempted to dump with "dd" or tar the whole _TOPDIR_ to a file, but I am not an old-time user of hardlinks and I don't know if this will do the trick, especially when restoring the dump. BTW, I t
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Hi > I would like to ask which is the simplest yet effective way to dump > backuppc stuff (mainly __TOPDIR__) eg to a removable hard disk that will > be used in a disaster recovery scenario where the
TOPDIR resides on an LVM volume. I know about snapshots but I've never tried them in practice. Is it difficult? How could I take a snapshot of a volume and put it on another disk (external USB device
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:48:15 +0100
It's easy. I've done it on two of our BackupPC servers, and have a weekly dump of the BackupPC filesystem between them. Documented here: http://www.tolaris.com/2010/04/23/using-lvm-to-make-a-live-cop
Thanks for this info! A question: the source logical volume and the snapshot one must reside in the same volume group for this feature to work? Alessandro Attachment: signature.asc Description: OpenP
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:51:56 -0500
The practical limit for rsync or other file-oriented copies has more to do with the number of hardlinks than the size of the archive. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com -- This SF.net email
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:00:37 +0100
I believe a snapshot of a logical volume must necessarily reside in the same volume group, yes. So if you have an LV which is 100% of the VG, you must resize it down or add disks to make it larger. R
I made some tests and the snapshot must belong to the same vg of the source lv. So, whenever I create the snapshot I have a "static" copy of the source lv that I can copy with any method (eg rsync or
Hi Believe me, now you are sure that BackupPC is "sleeping" during the copy, but tomorrow and tomorrow again with one more server/pc to backup, and another one, and so on..? - if the logical volume i
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:27:34 +0100
You did; it's the hard link problem of BackupPC and rsync. See here: http://www.tolaris.com/2010/04/23/using-lvm-to-make-a-live-copy-of-a-backuppcpool/ The LVM snapshot is so you can take a copy of t
-- Original Message -- Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc From: Mirco Piccin <pictux AT gmail DOT com> To: General list for user discussion, questions and support <backuppc-users AT lists.
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:10:32 -0500
No, you make a snapshot on the internal drive containing the archive - or you unmount the archive partition. Snapshots aren't mounted and don't change - thus the advantage of using them. You copy the
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:13:01 -0400
Les Mikesell wrote at about 07:51:56 -0500 on Friday, August 20, 2010: And just to be clear the consequence of what Les is saying is that it is unlikely to be much if at all faster the next time. --
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:18:42 -0400
Farmol SPA wrote at about 16:09:02 +0200 on Friday, August 20, 2010: Yes - you are missing something that multiple posters have tried to tell you. The problem is the number of hardlinks and not the a