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I used reiserfs3 (very good) and now btrfs (so-so, but getting better) - |
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stay away from anything ext* - they fall apart under the load eventually |
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losing the lot ... the filesystem gets hammered when its creating tons |
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of hardlinks. From personal experiance I have a very poor view on ext2 |
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and ext3 ... less experience (and failures!) with ext4 though as I avoid |
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ext* on principle now where I can. |
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First copy takes the same space as the original, subsequent only |
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includes changes (as hard links for existing files use zero space.) |
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Over time, it stabilises at ~2x the original size for full gentoo |
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systems with regular updates (configurable, I keep +2weeks daily, and |
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+6months Sunday backups - dirvish-expire can be a weekly cron job to |
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cull expired versions) My current setup uses a manually run script |
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(simple bash) to pull the wanted directories from a number of vm's and a |
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desktop. I used to do it automatically but until I stabilise my network |
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changes its easier manually. |
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Development looks slow/old from their website, but the activity is |
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elsewhere. |
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BillK |
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* from the dirvish web site "In other news, I've learned from the |
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director of the Oregon State University Open Source Lab that they will |
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be backing up their servers with dirvish. These servers are the primary |
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mirror sites for Mozilla, Kernel.org, Gentoo, Drupal, and other major |
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open source projects. " - if its good enough for them, its good enough ... |
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On 01/07/13 02:08, Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 30 Jun 2013 12:05:05 William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>> On 30/06/13 17:58, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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>>> Am 30.06.2013 01:42, schrieb Grant: |
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>>>> Can anyone think of an automated method that remotely and securely |
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>>>> backs up data from one system to another, preserves permissions and |
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>>>> ownership, and keeps the backups safe even if the backed-up system is |
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>>>> compromised? |
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>>>> |
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>>>> I did delve into bacula but decided it was overkill for just a few |
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>>>> systems. |
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>>> |
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>>> I use amanda but it might be overkill for you as well. The initial |
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>>> learning curve is a bit steep but then it is reliable and rather easy to |
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>>> add ned systems. |
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>>> What about using duplicity? And that dupinanny-helper-script. |
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>> sounds something like bacula in that it uses hard links, but also is |
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>> much simpler. To restore, you just rsync the file/files/everything back |
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>> as needed. Can be automated (passwordless logins using certs) and |
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>> basicly just works (for quite a few years now!). |
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>> |
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>> BillK |
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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: 47 kB |
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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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> |
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> What file system are you using with Dirvish and how much space compared to the |
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> source fs is it using? |
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