Hello! :) I've got a couple of questions for y'all. Q1: First of all, I'm being handed a project whereas I am to find and implement some sort of backup system across a wide range of various Linux hosts and a couple of windows machines. This backup system is to basically be a 'pseudo-TimeVault' if you're familiar with Mac OS/X's current backup system. I need to be able to roll back to any particular revision. A few of my first thoughts were pretty primitive, and included basically doing periodic compressed tarballs with a rotator to make sure that I don't run out of available space. These would hold the commonly changing and most important data while a one time master backup would hold the system configuration, etc, etc, so that basically I could create a minimal install on a clone of the same machine, throw on the master backup, then the most recent data, and call it done. obviously this is an obtuse method for doing so; it is also the method that we're trying to get away from as my predecessor was using an even dumber version of the same scheme. When I started digging, it seemed that 'svn' or 'git' might work well, if able to handle binaries, and definitely for systemwide configuration areas such as /etc. Finding git+etckeeper was a treasure, especially as I realized that svn wasn't able to hold anything binary at all. I'm working right now on implementing etckeeper for system configuration repositories, but this still leaves a large portion of what I'd like to work with to the 'dumb tarball' scheme. Since I've come in today I've run across a few blog articles that seem to indicate that git + some customization might be able to handle a larger portion of this for me, thus simplifying what I am trying to do: * http://eigenclass.org/hiki/gibak-backup-system-introduction <- this link is a prime example Does anybody have any resources or personal tips from utilizations that they're working with to share? I'd be very much appreciative for anything that can assist me in finding out exactly what I can deploy and, obviously, the howtos (if they exist) for such a scheme. Personal experience in the same areas would be great to hear, too. Thanks in advance on that one! Q2: I haven't found any way to tell the 'majordomo' mailing list software running this list that I am not happy receiving 40-60 emails in my business email inbox per day. Of course I can use google to filter them, but I'd still rather just get a daily digest if this is at all possible. Am I missing something obvious? TIA again. ---------- Damon Getsman -=-=-=- ITRx http://www.itrx-nd.com/ Programmer/IT Customer Relations/Sys Admin -=-=-=- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
