On 05/27/2013 11:06 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 05/27/2013 02:13 PM, Mike Watson 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. >> >> My problem is that I've found no means of backing up that file system. >> Dump and tar both error out as exceeding the maximum size. Neither will >> backup just the video directory (the largest) even with compression. >> >> Backup will be to an external (USB) removable HD. >> >> Can any suggest a prog or a method to back up this filesystem? >> >> mw >> > > I use rsync to make a daily back up of my data on a second drive that is > not normally mounted except when the backup is running. The drive is > inside the same box so this backup is still subject to loss if the box > is stolen or destroyed. I really should be backing up to an off site > location. > > If you have a fire, flood, or other general disaster your local backup > on an external drive isn't going to buy you anything unless you store > the external drive off site. > You can place that HDD in a rack (eSATA?) and add another that is kept off-site, and replace/swap them every week? Full off-site backup would require another box off-site with internet/wireless link for backups. Since you use rsync, data transfer should be fairly minimal. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant