[CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

Mon May 11 05:48:37 UTC 2015
Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of John R Pierce
> Sent: den 8 maj 2015 17:12
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution
> 
> On 5/7/2015 11:44 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> > May I ask what your settings are to achieve that retention rate?
> 
> there's a lot of settings...  but these are probably applicable...
> 
> Main Config:
>    Schedule:
>      FullPeriod: 27.9
>      FullKeepCnt: 24
>      FullKeepCntMin: 8
>      FullAgeMax: 360
>      IncrPeriod:  0.97
>      IncrKeepCnt: 30
>      IncrKeepMin: 1
>      IncrAgeMax: 30
>      IncrLevels: 1
> 
> on a few hosts where dailies are not appropriate due to how long they
> take, I override to do weekly incrementals instead
> 
>    Schedule:
>      FullPeriod: 89.6
>      FullKeepCnt: 2
>      FullKeepCntMin: 2
>      IncrPeriod: 6.97
>      IncrKeepCnt: 15
>      IncrAgeMax: 100
> 
> many of those are probably defaults, but I didn't keep track which ones
> I modified
> 
> another thing, many of my servers are SQL database servers (mostly
> postgresql and oracle).  I do NOT backup the sql data file systems
> directly with backuppc, instead, I have the SQL do archiving or
> scheduled dumps, and I backup those archive and dump destinations...

Thanks, very much appreciated!

I'll play around with the settings a bit more, but yours is a good starter.

Thanks again!

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//Sorin