Re: Backup solution

2014-12-12 Thread Ali AlipourR
I have another solution in my mind: a-formating my backup storage with file system (btrfs/ext4/whatever) and mounting it as backup destination b-making a sparse file in it with truncate(1) c-formating sparse file with btrfs to be used as "archive file system" (with compression, checksumming, trim

Re: Backup solution

2014-12-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 18:24 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 02.12.2014, Ali AlipourR wrote: > > > I need some advice on Backup solutions, what is your personal methods > > and solutions? > > rsync -avxHSAX /source/ /target > > You can even use it to move a complete installation to another disk,

Re: Backup solution

2014-12-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 06:30:02PM +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > It doesn't, however, do compression or encryption. > If the data is important (why make a backup otherwise?), this is a bad > idea. One single bit flip can render your whole archive/backup useless > (unless you have some par2 checksum

Re: Backup solution

2014-12-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.12.2014, Matthew Miller wrote: > It doesn't, however, do compression or encryption. If the data is important (why make a backup otherwise?), this is a bad idea. One single bit flip can render your whole archive/backup useless (unless you have some par2 checksums for it, which isn't a 100%

Re: Backup solution

2014-12-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.12.2014, Ali AlipourR wrote: > I need some advice on Backup solutions, what is your personal methods > and solutions? rsync -avxHSAX /source/ /target You can even use it to move a complete installation to another disk, just exchange source with target. It's fast, easy and reliable. -- u

Re: Backup solution

2014-12-02 Thread poma
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Re: Backup solution

2014-12-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 04:13:19PM +0330, Ali AlipourR wrote: > for file-level backups I found fsarchiver, dar, tar and for > file-system-level fsarchiver, clonezilla/partclone and dd appropriate > based on my requirements > (data integrity and confidentiality, mount and single-file-restoration > c

Re: Backup solution

2014-12-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 04:13:19PM +0330, Ali AlipourR wrote: > I'm new to Linux and unix-like systems, I need some advice on backup > solution for file level and block level backups Hi Ali. Please don't cross-post to all of these lists for user questions. The server, cloud,

Re: Backup solution

2014-12-02 Thread Derrik Walker v2.0
On 12/2/14, 7:43, Ali AlipourR wrote: I need some advice on Backup solutions, what is your personal methods and solutions? Any advice would be most welcome I use BackupPC. It's served me very well for years, and can backup just about anything. - Derrik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorap

Backup solution

2014-12-02 Thread Ali AlipourR
Hi I'm new to Linux and unix-like systems, I need some advice on backup solution for file level and block level backups for file-level backups I found fsarchiver, dar, tar and for file-system-level fsarchiver, clonezilla/partclone and dd appropriate based on my requirements (data integrit

Re: best backup solution

2013-01-31 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 31.01.2013 20:09, schrieb Junk: > I'd just like to clarify that LVM snapshots are not really a backup method in > themselves. Snapshots provide functionality to enable a block device level > (i.e. partition) backup to be taken on a live and changing filesystem by some > method. They only ex

Re: best backup solution

2013-01-31 Thread Junk
On 31 Jan 2013, at 10:32, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 07:59:42AM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: >> >> A combination of the disk/parition and file level backups is >> probable best, and also snap shots with LVM. > > I would also agree with this statement. For file-level bac

Re: best backup solution

2013-01-31 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 07:59:42AM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > A combination of the disk/parition and file level backups is > probable best, and also snap shots with LVM. > I would also agree with this statement. For file-level backups look at rsync and various rsync wrappers like r

Re: best backup solution

2013-01-30 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 30 Jan 2013 at 22:33, Raf Roger wrote: Date sent: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:33:22 +0100 Subject:best backup solution From: Raf Roger To: Community support for Fedora users > > Hi, > > coming from microsoft windows world, i would like to know what is the &

Re: best backup solution

2013-01-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
event of a crash (my philosophy). HTH, Ranjan On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:33:22 +0100 Raf Roger wrote: > Hi, > > coming from microsoft windows world, i would like to know what is the best > backup solution/tool under linux. I'm aware of simple backup suite and > fwbackups, however

best backup solution

2013-01-30 Thread Raf Roger
Hi, coming from microsoft windows world, i would like to know what is the best backup solution/tool under linux. I'm aware of simple backup suite and fwbackups, however i would like to understand the phylosophy behind Linux backup. under windows we used to backup the complete partition