From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:39:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811161239.01776.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226831476.21629.33.camel@rattus.localdomain>
On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:31:16 William Kenworthy wrote:
> * app-backup/dirvish
> Latest version available: 1.2.1
> Latest version installed: 1.2.1
> Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
> Homepage: http://www.dirvish.org/
> Description: Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network
> backup system.
> License: OSL-2.0
>
> Its worth a read on how its done - using smarts rather than brute force!
So the basic premise is that backups are done frequently and need to be
efficient, whereas restores are only done in the event of a mistake. Less
efficient restores is then a fair trade?
I see people get this wrong all the time at work. They assume that backups are
some sort of rapid shared storage system. Which of course it isn't.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-16 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-15 19:45 [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time Mick
2008-11-15 20:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-15 20:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-15 20:29 ` Jerry McBride
2008-11-15 20:38 ` Dale
2008-11-16 0:08 ` Mick
2008-11-16 0:42 ` Dale
2008-11-16 2:58 ` Jerry McBride
2008-11-16 9:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 11:51 ` Mick
2008-11-16 13:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 17:12 ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-11-16 5:16 ` jaeyoung lee
2008-11-16 9:04 ` William Kenworthy
2008-11-16 9:36 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-16 9:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 10:31 ` William Kenworthy
2008-11-16 10:39 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-11-16 12:36 ` William Kenworthy
2008-11-16 13:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-17 16:07 ` Joerg Schilling
2008-11-30 22:56 ` Mick
2008-11-30 23:04 ` Joerg Schilling
2008-11-16 10:35 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-11-19 16:59 ` Mark Somerville
2008-11-19 17:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2008-11-20 7:15 ` Dirk Heinrichs
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