Sean Carolan wrote: >> If a disk based archive will work, backuppc ( >> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) is fairly painless and it's scheme of >> compression and hardlinking duplicates lets you keep about 10x the history >> you'd expect. If you need offsite copies you'll have to run an independent >> instance elsewhere or come up with a clever scheme to copy the disk though. >> The massive number of hardlinks it creates makes it difficult to use normal >> methods to copy the archive partition. > > > We use backuppc in production. It has awesome compression, and a great web > gui that you can use to restore individual files or file trees. I have even > used it on occasion to rebuild an entire Linux server from bare metal (I had > to install the base OS first, but it worked!) > > As Les mentioned, due to the huge number of files and hard links you will > run into problems copying the backuppc files off to tape or external USB > drive if you try to use rsync or cp for this. Depending on the amount of > data you are working with, you might whip up a script that unmounts your > backuppc storage partition, and images the entire thing to an external media > with dd_rescue. I also use backuppc ... you can even let users login and have access only to their machine to recover their own files. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080730/2fbbf092/attachment-0005.sig>