From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1f25-0007Ou-CX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:39:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D796E01A6; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:39:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B1CE01A6 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:39:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j40so1785562rnf.16 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:39:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=Rv6Hx/pQQFp9F8hs7mGfPkjI3Wn7pMRLwNITB1IqjN4=; b=eorI7HdkTgbMuIR8BqMJL6vD1pkrYR/Qztqf3bprORTDEDYTuCnQgiBze59/9g9PJq qMW8jJmxVynsYC9aFmxqgT8LT1xtn/oUZvc1N88LxlBXV1oUzKW7Il24RF10CFwPJTlO AUBdGFr23AYR/t6QMtXT7zxrStX89K7M0tm9k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=UbDgoi+vpiviR0N8zRixtmmw8CVTc71HatJ0M/KptBXpDPYrkopclrWu7V02J5BHct +9bglRsrvps4Hd5EwZ6OgyRFcRK/CH6ArQRTy+6H1laDifqRUVbe/GIh+AecTZ6IPSMS N6vn2tLv7D0WdvF/VAraLI/9tgLZi0rMuV4VQ= Received: by 10.65.241.15 with SMTP id t15mr2705456qbr.8.1226831947099; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:39:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.4? (dsl-243-253-47.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.253.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p6sm4820316qbp.17.2008.11.16.02.39.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:39:06 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200811151945.23398.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200811161158.01059.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1226831476.21629.33.camel@rattus.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1226831476.21629.33.camel@rattus.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811161239.01776.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 8bca2fea-e7ba-4920-8c91-37a02fe7c6b4 X-Archives-Hash: af306fb60428b4c54e911c1c78456788 On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:31:16 William Kenworthy wrote: > * =A0app-backup/dirvish > =A0 =A0 =A0 Latest version available: 1.2.1 > =A0 =A0 =A0 Latest version installed: 1.2.1 > =A0 =A0 =A0 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] > =A0 =A0 =A0 Homepage: =A0 =A0http://www.dirvish.org/ > =A0 =A0 =A0 Description: Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network > backup system. > =A0 =A0 =A0 License: =A0 =A0 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=20 efficient, whereas restores are only done in the event of a mistake. Less=20 efficient restores is then a fair trade? I see people get this wrong all the time at work. They assume that backups = are=20 some sort of rapid shared storage system. Which of course it isn't. =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com