[TriLUG] question about backups

[Brian Weaver]

I would definitely recommend rsnapshot. I used it on a server at home. As part of the backup operation it dumps the currently running mysql database to a flat file in a specific directory. Those database backups are rotated and I ignore the "live" directories mysql is using. This way I get a consistent database backup that is saved as part of the system backup on a daily, weekly, monthly rotation on an external drive.

It effectively duplicates TimeMachine functionality with regards to backing up data.

-- Brian

On Mar 4, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Matt Pusateri wrote:

> Look at rsnapshot, it uses rsync and hard links to do incrementals
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> Matt P.
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> On Mar 4, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Charles Mangin <option8 at option8.com> wrote:
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>> i'm looking at ways to do backups of large amounts of data that are currently spread across multiple drives.
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>> for a while i was doing a series of rsync tasks, pooling the various drives into images on a larger drive that could hold them all. the point has come now where that's impractical, since the individual drives have each been replaced by larger drives themselves. the last backup that i was able to fit on a single drive did so juuuust barely.
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>> what i'm hoping i can do is somehow just rsync any files that have changed since that last backup date onto a new drive, and use that method going forward. essentially, do an incremental backup from date X. is that possible with rsync or something similar?
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>> Charles Mangin
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