Re: Backup solution to backup /var/spool/imap above 150GB data

[Agnello George <agnello.dsouza@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Carr <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@xxxxxx>wrote:
> > 2010/2/24 Agnello George <agnello.dsouza@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:

> > >> You might want to try brackup (http://code.google.com/p/brackup/). For
> > >> very
> > >> large trees of relatively small files it seems to significantly
> > >> out-perform
> > >> rsync-based backups. I've got brackup packages in my repository (see
> > >> http://www.openfusion.net/linux/openfusion_rpm_repository).
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Gavin
> > >>
> > > is it possible with " brackup "  to back it up to a different server on
> > > the same lan   instead of /backup  . Is there any documentation on the
> > > same .
> >
> > rsync or rdiff-backup works on local disk or remote disk.(and other
> > backup methods too!)
>
> Does http://code.google.com/p/brackup/  also work in on remote machines .

Brackup will backup to local disk, or remotely to ftp, sftp, Amazon S3, or
Rackspace CloudFiles targets/servers. So yes, on a lan you can backup over
ftp or sftp just fine.

Re docs, install brackup, 'man Brackup::Manual::Overview'. I've also written
a few blog posts on it: http://www.openfusion.net/tags/brackup.

Cheers,
Gavin

I am trying to install the  brackup app on my system, the documentations seems very helpful ( http://www.openfusion.net/net/fun_with_brackup)

But i have a  few  queries  with the config file :

[TARGET:backups]
type = Filesystem
path = /backup

[SOURCE:imapsource]
path = /var/spool/imap
chunk_size = 5m           # what does this mean ????

gpg_recipient = 5E1B3EC5     # what does this mean ????

[SOURCE:bradhome]
chunk_size = 64MB
path = /raid/bradfitz/
ignore = ^\.thumbnails/
ignore = ^\.kde/share/thumbnails/
ignore = ^\.ee/minis/
ignore = ^build/
ignore = ^(gqview|nautilus)/thumbnails/

 

and suppose i want to backup it up to another server with scp / ssh     how is this attatined .

secondly in whant format is the backup maintained . 

-- 
Regards 
Agnello D'souza


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