On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:57:31AM -0400, John Lockard wrote: > For backing up a laptop locally, bacula seems to be HUGE > overkill. How long will you be keeping these backups? How many > backups will you be keeping? My guess is that you'd be better > served by a little scripting, rsync and cron. > > Each day, establish a new directory by date, then hourly run rsync > to that location. > Or, Each day establish a new directory by date, create > a "watcher" file, then hourly run a 'find [dir] -newer > /path/to/watcher' to establish a list of files which have > changed, then 'touch /path/to/watcher'. From the list of > files which changed, tar them to backup location. > > Depending on how you want to keep files, you'll either have > a date directory (/backups/20090527) with all of the days > changed files in it, or you'll have a date directory with hourly > subdirs with the hourly changes (/backups/20090527/01, etc.). > > Then, when you're back at the office, where the bacula server > is, you kick off a backup manually which will backup your > /backups directory.
Thanks for your kind suggestions, anyway I have already managed to get bacula working on my laptop to do backup hourly for my documents. I save them to another home directory on the harddrive. Aside from installing a postfix mysql server on my laptop, it works ok.. Regards, > > -John > > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 06:29:28PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 06:50:52PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > John Drescher wrote: > > > >>> So, if you run backups locally to an external disk, you could back up > > > >>> the > > > >>> catalog by taking an ascii dump of the database, and copying the dump > > > >>> file > > > >>> to the same disk used for actual backup data. > > > >> So Can I just back the directory where the database is? > > > >> > > > > That is not a good way to backup a database. You need to run mysqldupm > > > > instead and backup the text file it generates. > > > > > > What John said. > > > > > > Not only does this ensure that your backup contains a valid MySQL dump, > > > it also exercises the database. That is, the act of running mysqldump > > > reads every part of the databases and dumps it out. If there is any > > > 'hidden' problem with the databases, chances are, you'll find out about > > > it during the dump process itself. > > > > > > Said explanation applies to all databases IMHO. > > > > Thanks John and Dan for pointing out this for me. I will definetely do > > that. > > > > Zhengquan > > > > > > > > - -- > > > Dan Langille > > > > > > BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ > > > PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) > > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkoZz0wACgkQCgsXFM/7nTxhwACffVigKxm386DGzYhGlxBkqIhv > > > 0usAoJnpJxahzI+T8sppKdJtG9g7J4fm > > > =lzRI > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > > Zhengquan > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. > > Meet > > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > > iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian > > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > > > > -- > "Yes, evil comes in many forms, whether it be a man-eating cow or Joseph > Stalin, but you can't let the package hide the pudding! Evil is just > plain bad! You don't cotton to it. You gotta smack it in the nose with > the rolled-up newspaper of goodness! Bad dog! Bad dog!" - The Tick > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > John M. Lockard | U of Michigan - School of Information > Unix and Security Admin | 1214 SI North - 1075 Beal Ave. > jlock...@umich.edu | Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2112 > www.umich.edu/~jlockard | 734-615-8776 | 734-647-8045 FAX > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Zhengquan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
