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 1L1hTm-0004l6-0K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:15:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D433E01E2; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.156]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 486A6E01F0 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so964406yxp.46 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:15:09 -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=kg2XM4FM5A0S+QOkkDDjWjq1U1/pPz2tq45jd8EnkFw=; b=Y9YmTKRM//eQmxT+JenEEWPKZ12iGVTqEagVscDSdWpF2f0XbcP1bub8b5DeCm8fzD tTiioM+H90TmYgGvYIdv2uEZq9pe8y4BC0jKc10dyF/0s1KSix21a1aMpCEzBm3ZpQsZ 8Pfbt7uEdfX2qn4bXg10ZDqGmziKb8/Jk2N9Q= 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=v33Cv//xMIcJqc4uMhkaF0EGHrUk7Z2DvCTMIXeynUt6kdn31Q0qKr7C6AxK5HREOU VWGtLnrmdORlkVHDKpq9nat7aAypKfL3fLSZhgGBeI0KV/zea0afvYJ2oND3xJs4rNw1 wb02T1QVOA8JJsuOHZCgE/YiDZehB9+e85Nak= Received: by 10.64.88.13 with SMTP id l13mr2766327qbb.83.1226841307766; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:15:07 -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 12sm4952145qbw.2.2008.11.16.05.15.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:15:06 -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 15:15:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200811151945.23398.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200811161239.01776.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1226838982.21629.43.camel@rattus.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1226838982.21629.43.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: <200811161515.02561.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d8137afa-248c-428d-bf10-84ae7b4699e9 X-Archives-Hash: 02ef3d8896aeda51db5c7a2be9ec02e2 On Sunday 16 November 2008 14:36:22 William Kenworthy wrote: > I wouldnt call it fair trade, rather "its working now and we'll make it > better it eventually." > > I agree, backups should be just that - protection from mistakes/lost > data. =A0However this is from someone who has the archives mounted via nfs > and can browse via filemanager an retrieve files that way via a desktop. > Currently I have my freeruner mobile phone, mythtv critical files and a > number of systems such as laptops backed up this way and its been very > reliable and useful, both as automatic/unattended and manually run. OK I see where you are coming from. When you say backup/restore to me, I think in terms of what I'm used to -=20 massive tape archives holding many multi-TB of data for thousands of hosts.= =20 What you are describing is indeed a backup, but in my world I'd probably ca= ll=20 it something else. Perhaps I should have been more explicit and said "Disaster Recovery Archiv= al=20 Backup" instead of "backup"... :-) =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com