On 11/5/2013 7:52 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I don't think that's going to happen. First, we have an in-house developed > backup system that works just fine. Second, we*are* backup up something > over a hundred servers and workstations to a few backup servers. Third, we > are talking, in some cases, of terabytes....
my backuppc server is doing a couple dozen VM's and physical machines, linux+solaris+AIX+WindowsServer, I have backups going back to MARCH, and the whole pool is just a few terabytes, with an effective compression of like 50:1 due to the amount of duplication in those backups. the database server machines run a pre-backup script that either does a database dump, or a freeze (for instance, postgresql has pg_start_backup()), then backup whats right, and run a post-backup script (pg_stop_backup()) its worked remarkably well for me, using a fraction of the disk space I'd planned for (both primary and mirror backup servers have room for 36 3.5" SAS drives, although they are only stuffed with 20x3TB in raid6+0 configurations) -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
