[CentOS] Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

Agnello George agnello.dsouza at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 13:57:09 UTC 2010


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr <gavin at openfusion.com.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi
> >wrote:
> > > 2010/2/24 Agnello George <agnello.dsouza at gmail.com>:
> > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr <gavin at openfusion.com.au
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > >> You might want to try brackup (http://code.google.com/p/brackup/).
> For
> > > >> very
> > > >> large trees of relatively small files it seems to significantly
> > > >> out-perform
> > > >> rsync-based backups. I've got brackup packages in my repository (see
> > > >> http://www.openfusion.net/linux/openfusion_rpm_repository).
> > > >>
> > > >> Cheers,
> > > >> Gavin
> > > >>
> > > > is it possible with " brackup "  to back it up to a different server
> on
> > > > the same lan   instead of /backup  . Is there any documentation on
> the
> > > > same .
> > >
> > > rsync or rdiff-backup works on local disk or remote disk.(and other
> > > backup methods too!)
> >
> > Does http://code.google.com/p/brackup/  also work in on remote machines
> .
>
> Brackup will backup to local disk, or remotely to ftp, sftp, Amazon S3, or
> Rackspace CloudFiles targets/servers. So yes, on a lan you can backup over
> ftp or sftp just fine.
>
> Re docs, install brackup, 'man Brackup::Manual::Overview'. I've also
> written
> a few blog posts on it: http://www.openfusion.net/tags/brackup.
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin
>
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it will take me some time to try this .. will get back on its output !! ..
thanks

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Regards
Agnello D'souza
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