DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2008-05
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Re: Backup statistics - using HAMMER on my LAN backup box
:I am wondering how you exactly do the backup. You probably just copy
:over the modified files, right? But how do you determine which files
:have been modified? Do you use some md5 checksum (which is expensive!)
:or just the mtime?
:
:Would be even better to use something like rsync, right?
:
:Regards,
:
: Michael
My backups? The backup box NFS mounts all the partitions from the other
boxes that I want to backup, and I use cpdup. With UFS I used the
hardlink trick to create a daily snapshot. With HAMMER I just cpdup
to the same targets and create @@ softlinks to the snapshots.
The off-site backup at the moment runs cpdup over a ssh link to the
off-site backup box. That box is running linux so it uses the hardlink
trick. RSync would be reasonable there, and in fact I might switch
to it for the remote backups. But I far prefer using NFS/cpdup for the
LAN backups.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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