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On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 04:32:06PM +0800, Wang Penghui wrote: |
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> In my server box, there is a directory used to store users' data, |
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> but there are lots of subfolders under it, and there there also are lots |
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> of subfolders under the subfolders too. in each folders there are lots |
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> of files. |
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> And the files would be changed at any time. Some added while some |
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> deleted, some increased while some decreased. And the amount of the |
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> files is so big. |
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> Even more than 10G. |
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> Now the problem come out. I need to backup all the files in the |
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> folders. Because the files would be changed even in every minute. So i |
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> have to backup it as often as possible. I am blind with it now. Maybe |
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> rsync will fit my requirements, i am not sure about it now. |
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> |
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> Could someone pick me up. |
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Do you use LVM2 (or can you use it)? If so, make a snapshot and backup the |
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snapshot. |
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You can hardly backup every file every time it's changed, that's not what |
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backups are for. You should inform your users about the backup policy _you_ |
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are going to use on your system, tell them why you will do X backups per Y |
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days, and that if they want higher-rate backups they should use their own |
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method. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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