[NCLUG] Server-to-Server backups

DJ Eshelman djsbignews at gmail.com
Wed Jun 28 17:40:09 MDT 2006


Wow... This is gonna be a blast - I'll be setting up to test servers and
having a go at it later this week.  Wish me luck!

-DJ

On 6/28/06, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:43:32PM -0600, Alan Silverstein wrote:
> >To be even more pedantic, and fail-safe, it looks for files with mtimes
> >newer than the START of the last rolling backup run that successfully
> >COMPLETED.  :-)
>
> That's more sane.
>
> Clearly, however, you want to use inotify or similar to get information
> about changed files immediately when they change, so you could do
> something
> approaching real-time rolling backups.
>
> Now you just have to implement it.  :-)
>
> Of course, it would be extremely cool to run on a file-system with
> meta-data and file data journaling, and then hook into the journal and
> stream it off to another system for near real-time change information.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
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