Re: Backup advice

2006-08-22 Thread Ami Chayun
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 11:26, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > On Monday 21 August 2006 11:54, you wrote: > > Hi all, > > I would like to get some advice for a backup utility with the following > > capabilities: > > > > 1. Be able to snap-shot directories and databases (not the entire file > > system). > >

Re: Backup advice

2006-08-22 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 8/21/06, Ariel Biener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 11:54, Ami Chayun wrote:> Hi all,> I would like to get some advice for a backup utility with the following> capabilities:>Try rsnapshot ( http://www.rsnapshot.org)You may also want to try BackupPC, http://backuppc.sourcefo

Re: Backup advice

2006-08-22 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Monday 21 August 2006 11:54, you wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to get some advice for a backup utility with the following > capabilities: > > 1. Be able to snap-shot directories and databases (not the entire file > system). You need to specify what databases. Most databases need to be closed

Re: Backup advice

2006-08-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:57:09PM +0300, Ehud Karni wrote: > I did not know about rsnapshot. So I built a system that does exactly > that (system of snapshots) with a simple sh script and use of rsync. Yes, there is nothing magical about it. It's also just a script, albeit a long one (around 5000

Re: Backup advice

2006-08-21 Thread Ehud Karni
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:37:03, Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Try rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org) > > > > > > To the best of my knowledge, and correct me if I'm wrong, none of the > > > common filesystems (including ext2) support snapshots. > > > > Nothing, you were correct

Re: Backup advice

2006-08-21 Thread Eli Marmor
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:00:08PM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: > > Ariel Biener wrote: > > > Try rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org) > > To the best of my knowledge, and correct me if I'm wrong, none of the > > common filesystems (including ext2) support snapshots. > >

Re: Backup advice

2006-08-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:00:08PM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: > Ariel Biener wrote: [snip] > > Try rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org) [snip] > Otherwise, it is not really a snapshot, and the use of this term is > misleading. [snip] > To the best of my knowledge, and correct me if I'm wrong, none of

Re: Backup advice

2006-08-21 Thread Eli Marmor
Ariel Biener wrote: > On Monday 21 August 2006 11:54, Ami Chayun wrote: > > Hi all, > > I would like to get some advice for a backup utility with the following > > capabilities: > > > > Try rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org) Thank you for the link (although I was not the original subscriber wh

Re: Backup advice

2006-08-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ami Chayun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > I would like to get some advice for a backup utility with the following > capabilities: > > 1. Be able to snap-shot directories and databases (not the entire file > system). > 2. Perform incremental backups (at least for directories) > 3. Good i

Re: Backup advice

2006-08-21 Thread Ariel Biener
On Monday 21 August 2006 11:54, Ami Chayun wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to get some advice for a backup utility with the following > capabilities: > Try rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org) --Ariel > 1. Be able to snap-shot directories and databases (not the entire file > system). > 2. Per

Backup advice

2006-08-21 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi all, I would like to get some advice for a backup utility with the following capabilities: 1. Be able to snap-shot directories and databases (not the entire file system). 2. Perform incremental backups (at least for directories) 3. Good integrity checks 4. Sane recovery process The main prob