[BlueOnyx:05553] Re: Backups

[Jim Dory]

  This may not work over the internets and I probably have a completely 
different situation but I'm backing up 200GB nightly with rsnapshot 
(uses rsync) and it does incremental. I have it set to save a week worth 
(nightly) then start overwriting on 7th day..

/jd

On 10/12/2010 10:08 AM, Jeff Jones wrote:
> It's not really a very cleaver backup is it?
>
> I have a number of customers with sites over 1GB in size, on one server there is 30GB of site data. So every night 30gb of data is backed up, even if only 500 MB is new. If you have a lot of servers, and want to FTP backups to a central backup server, this is huge waste of I/O and storage.
>
> Yes it would be great to have a differential / incremental backup solution for BX....
>
> Jeff
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 12 Oct 2010, at 18:32, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet<cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com>  wrote:
>
>> Tony C. Loosle wrote:
>>> Has anyone had any success with anything other than raqbackup?
>>>
>>> ie, Backup Exec?  I have not tried to install it yet.  Wondering if
>>> anyone has it working.
>>>
>>> A couple of my servers take almost 24 hours to complete a raqbackup and
>>> ftp the files over.  Makes the server almost useless during that time.
>>> Most of the files don't need to be backed up weekly.  I am moving the
>>> raqbackup to monthly, but would like to find a better, faster option.
>> Egads!  why is it taking so long to make a backup?   Is it going to a
>> remote server across a slow connection?   Or is there something else at
>> work?
>>
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