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, and desktop sig mailin

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