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

Wed Feb 24 13:35:01 UTC 2010
Gavin Carr <gavin at openfusion.com.au>

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