On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Keith Keller < kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2013-05-27, Mike Watson <mikew at crucis.net> wrote: > > I've a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I > > provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS 6.3 > > with paired 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. It works well. One > > filesystem is very large, >500GB, and contains numerous large files: > > SQL, docs, church libraries in ebook and digital form, plus stored > > videos of church services. > > > > Backup will be to an external (USB) removable HD. > > > > Can any suggest a prog or a method to back up this filesystem? > > People have already suggested rsync and rdiff-backup; there's also > rsnapshot which is built on top of rsync. > > Another option could be mdadm if your RAID1 is already an mdadm array. > You can add your USB drive to the array, wait for it to rebuild, then > remove it from the array. I'd be wary of backing up an SQL database in > that way, but I'd be wary of using rsync, dump, or tar too, so be sure > to take a real backup (e.g., mysqldump, pg_dump) of your database first. > > --keith > > -- > kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I'd take the extra step of reformatting the USB drive into an ext3 filesystem, then just use rsync in a nightly cron job. We do it with about a dozen or so workstations here with user data either on internal disks, or other external USB drives. Works great. -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu