I plan to use copy as backup, because second server will be old
physical computer(about 2TB disk)
in remote office and first server will be virtual machine on storage.
On first server i plan to
have one folder where i plan to copy over rsync all files from second server.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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