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On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 12:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:31:16 William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > * app-backup/dirvish |
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> > Latest version available: 1.2.1 |
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> > Latest version installed: 1.2.1 |
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> > Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] |
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> > Homepage: http://www.dirvish.org/ |
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> > Description: Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network |
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> > backup system. |
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> > License: OSL-2.0 |
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> > Its worth a read on how its done - using smarts rather than brute force! |
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> So the basic premise is that backups are done frequently and need to be |
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> efficient, whereas restores are only done in the event of a mistake. Less |
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> efficient restores is then a fair trade? |
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> I see people get this wrong all the time at work. They assume that backups are |
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> some sort of rapid shared storage system. Which of course it isn't. |
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I wouldnt call it fair trade, rather "its working now and we'll make it |
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better it eventually." |
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I agree, backups should be just that - protection from mistakes/lost |
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data. However this is from someone who has the archives mounted via nfs |
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and can browse via filemanager an retrieve files that way via a desktop. |
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Currently I have my freeruner mobile phone, mythtv critical files and a |
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number of systems such as laptops backed up this way and its been very |
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reliable and useful, both as automatic/unattended and manually run. |
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Its neat in that you only need rsync and ssh (though its possible to use |
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rsh and the like) on the client. You only need dirvish on the server. |
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Starting to sound like a salesman for it! - but I have been very happy |
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with it. I used to use custom rsync scripts, different backup managers |
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and even tivoli backup at work. Dirvish is best for my usage. |
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BillK |