Re: speed of RAID1 rebuild [was Re: System Backups]

2002-10-14 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
CTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 4:48 PM Subject: speed of RAID1 rebuild [was Re: System Backups] > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > > > > What if you setup two disks in RAID1 and pull one of the disks for > > > backup and insert new one instead? > > &

Re: speed of RAID1 rebuild [was Re: System Backups]

2002-10-14 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > > > > What if you setup two disks in RAID1 and pull one of the disks for > > > backup and insert new one instead? > > > > 2. you will need to rebuild the mirror once it is reintegrated and thæt > > is a slow an

Re: speed of RAID1 rebuild [was Re: System Backups]

2002-10-14 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 10/14/2002 4:48 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: >On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > > > >>>What if you setup two disks in RAID1 and pull one of the disks for >>>backup and insert new one instead? >>> >>> >>2. you will need to rebuild the mirror once it is reintegrated and thæt >>is a sl

speed of RAID1 rebuild [was Re: System Backups]

2002-10-14 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > > What if you setup two disks in RAID1 and pull one of the disks for > > backup and insert new one instead? > > 2. you will need to rebuild the mirror once it is reintegrated and thæt > is a slow and painful process. how slow is it really ? Once I buil

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Mon, 14 Oct: > >Of course, any disk copy, block-by-block and not file-by-file, must be > >done when the disk is frozen, i.e. either unmounted or in Single mode > >when nobody writes to the disk. Unless you have LVM with Freeze options. > > > What if you setup

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Mark Veltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. a backup software usually registers itself as a cron process. You don't > have to actually write the script or register it in cron. No big deal, is it? > 2. a backup software is usually incremental. Meaning you can always have a > snapshot of last

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Boris Gorelik
On Monday 14 October 2002 12:37, Erez Boym wrote: I use this not too sofisticated script: #!/bin/bash # # Creates backups of essential files. After the completion, sends log to predefined address. # Full backup is made at Saturday ("Shabbat"). Incremental backups are made every weekday. # In o

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 10/14/2002 1:10 PM, Eli Marmor wrote: >Sagi Bashari wrote: > > >>On 10/14/2002 12:37 PM, Erez Boym wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>What would be the way to backup an entire system ? >>> >>>I have a server which I need too backup, a complete >>>backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and th

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Mark Veltzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 13:08, you wrote: > I think that he didn't look for backup tools, but asked what's wrong > with a dumb copy, and if a dumb copy can be used instead of tools like > Ghost and mindi/mondo. > > Since this question bothers me too

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Eli Marmor
Sagi Bashari wrote: > > On 10/14/2002 12:37 PM, Erez Boym wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >What would be the way to backup an entire system ? > > > >I have a server which I need too backup, a complete > >backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and then to > >easily rebuild the entire server back from scra

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Eli Marmor
I think that he didn't look for backup tools, but asked what's wrong with a dumb copy, and if a dumb copy can be used instead of tools like Ghost and mindi/mondo. Since this question bothers me too, can anybody summarize the advantages of a dedicated backup software? Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > th

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Joseph Teichman
There are a number of ways you can go about backing up your system, depending on what type of backup media you have available. The restoration procedure would depend on the backup method. It would be entirely possible to simply copy the file system onto a DVD (or a number of DVDs, depending of the

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Erez Boym, from the post of Mon, 14 Oct: > Hi, > > What would be the way to backup an entire system ? depends on your needs. how often you expect to use it, how expensive should the medias be, how many backups do you rotate, etc. you could do a full "ghost" with a tool called Partition

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Mark Veltzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 12:37, you wrote: > Hi, > > What would be the way to backup an entire system ? > > I have a server which I need too backup, a complete > backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and then to > easily rebuild the entire server b

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Amir Tal
On Monday 14 October 2002 12:37 pm, Erez Boym wrote: > Hi, > > What would be the way to backup an entire system ? > > I have a server which I need too backup, a complete > backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and then to > easily rebuild the entire server back from scratch. > > Would it be enou

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 10/14/2002 12:37 PM, Erez Boym wrote: >Hi, > >What would be the way to backup an entire system ? > >I have a server which I need too backup, a complete >backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and then to >easily rebuild the entire server back from scratch. > >Would it be enough to copy the en

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
the mindi/mondo backup program should do the trick for you.. http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ Thanks, Hetz On Monday 14 October 2002 12:37, Erez Boym wrote: > Hi, > > What would be the way to backup an entire system ? > > I have a server which I need too backup, a complete > backup setups, *-co

System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Erez Boym
Hi, What would be the way to backup an entire system ? I have a server which I need too backup, a complete backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and then to easily rebuild the entire server back from scratch. Would it be enough to copy the entire file system on to DVDs, Tape etc. and then rei