Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:14:49 +1000
BTW, my "simple" solution to this apparently "major" problem was as follows: 1) Start using backuppc with a single FS (/) formatted with reiserfs (my preference). 2) Backuppc grows too big for the FS
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:15:15 -0500
Unless there's a database problem. Or the executable crashes. Or a programming bug. Or a database bug. Or the database runs out of space. Or the database crashes. Or somebody runs any number of proc
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 03:05:44 +0200
Hi, Marty wrote on 2009-08-31 19:58:58 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with hardlink-based backups...]: ... or other threads ... ... or pointing out why it is wrong ... Nope, they have not, and
In my case, "the software that the site uses" is backuppc. There is only one implementation. What I have asked for is a disaster recovery method for recovering backuppc servers. Holger has kindly pro
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:13:38 -0500
Most hardware that runs linux would run OpenSolaris as well or better. None of those things are any different for Linux. And you probably didn't convert your whole shop to when you installed your fir
I have not (yet) come across a cloud storage provider who supports hardlinks. The specific provider I was talking about is rsync.net. For all the backuppc servers I (currently) administer, the OS is
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:40:13 -0400
Jim Leonard wrote at about 16:55:04 -0500 on Monday, August 31, 2009: You have selectively cut & pasted my comments to prove your straw man argument. I understand *exactly* how hard links work. Howev
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:48:39 -0400
Jim Leonard wrote at about 17:17:24 -0500 on Monday, August 31, 2009: It would be *very* different since you can easily copy a SQL database to another disk while due to the large number of hard-links
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:49:48 -0400
Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:41:06 -0500 on Monday, August 31, 2009: Must be looking in the mirror again ;) -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Si
I read the docs before setting it up and it was very obvious to me that planning was required. Then again, I've been doing this for a while. But it *was* in the documentation, if not in-your-face exp
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Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:56:01 -0400
Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:53:02 -0500 on Monday, August 31, 2009: Not all Linux installations support LVM - oh yeah, I forgot, you consider a consumer-NAS to be a "fringe" case. What if you wan
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:55:46 -0400
Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:53:02 -0500 on Monday, August 31, 2009: Not all Linux installations support LVM - oh yeah, I forgot, you consider a consumer-NAS to be a "fringe" case. What if you wan
There is nothing abnormal about the use of hard links here. What operating environment are you basing your definition of "normal" on? This is not only normal, it is intended. For example, granting DB
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:07:20 -0400
Adam Goryachev wrote at about 14:14:49 +1000 on Tuesday, September 1, 2009: As I mentioned this is not (well) documented in the BackupPC documentation and continues to trip up new and not-so-new user
If you're using rsync to copy database files while they're still open, you've completely invalidated your argument. Now it is you who is using the straw-man argument, because backuppc *can* easily be
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:18:12 -0500
Is there a limit to the file size? Why not put an image copy of your archive filesystem in a file? Or for an interesting variation, make a vmware vmx virtual disk split into 1 or 2 gig file segments
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:18:28 -0400
Michael Stowe wrote at about 23:15:15 -0500 on Monday, August 31, 2009: And such issues can and do occur with the current situation. Witness the instances of people with corrupted attrib files or unl
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:26:22 -0400
Les Mikesell wrote at about 21:13:38 -0500 on Monday, August 31, 2009: Not all of us have spare servers hanging around or enough horsepower to run a vm. This would be an added cost. I run Linux alrea
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:28:59 -0400
Jim Leonard wrote at about 23:53:13 -0500 on Monday, August 31, 2009: OK - can you show me where in the documentation it mentions the issue with copying/moving BackupPC data and hence the recommendat