Re: What to use for backups?

From: Matthew Schumacher <schu@schu.net>
Date: Wed Apr 07 2004 - 12:41:21 AKDT

Justin,

That link has some very interesting information, seems like the best
route at this point is to use software increments or snapshots. That
trick looks like it would work fine on sun so I could by a 250G drive
and be done with it.

Thanks for the info.

schu

Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Justin Dieters wrote:
>
>
>>If you are comfortable with a hard disk-based solution, this works well for a cheap and fast solution to backups: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
>>
>>It uses rsync and hard links to do incremental snapshot backups. We have a weeks worth of daily backups of the most important stuff only, and 5 weeks worth of complete weekly backups, plus some misc. backups, and it only takes about 1.5x the space as the original - from about 50 gigs for the original data to 75 gigs for all the backups.
>
>
> If you follow the kernel lists there's some pretty neat stuff happening with
> COW links (copy-on-write) that I'm looking forward to trying when I finally
> dive into 2.6.x (probably next year).
>
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