[CentOS] Two Samba Servers and Rsync

On 8/9/11 9:35 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 08/09/11 6:23 PM, Always Learning wrote:
>> What do you suggest for scheduled incremental saves of files changing
>> irregularly ?
>
> well, there's always a classic monthly/weekly/daily
> incremental/differential sequence using dump (assuming its extfs).
>
> backuppc is neat, but you end up with a really huge gnarly file system
> with bazillions of files and links, becoming unmanagable over time
>

As a filesystem it continues to work just fine.  It is only 'unmanageable' in 
the sense that it becomes impractical to back it up with file-oriented methods 
because reconstructing that number of hardlinks is time consuming.  But (a) it 
_is_ the backup, and (b) image-oriented filesystem copies work fine - or 
splitting and resync'ing raid mirrors.

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   Les Mikesell
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