Re: best backup solution

2013-01-31 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 31.01.2013 20:09, schrieb Junk: > I'd just like to clarify that LVM snapshots are not really a backup method in > themselves. Snapshots provide functionality to enable a block device level > (i.e. partition) backup to be taken on a live and changing filesystem by some > method. They only ex

Re: best backup solution

2013-01-31 Thread Junk
On 31 Jan 2013, at 10:32, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 07:59:42AM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: >> >> A combination of the disk/parition and file level backups is >> probable best, and also snap shots with LVM. > > I would also agree with this statement. For file-level bac

Re: best backup solution

2013-01-31 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 07:59:42AM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > A combination of the disk/parition and file level backups is > probable best, and also snap shots with LVM. > I would also agree with this statement. For file-level backups look at rsync and various rsync wrappers like r

Re: best backup solution

2013-01-30 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 30 Jan 2013 at 22:33, Raf Roger wrote: Date sent: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:33:22 +0100 Subject:best backup solution From: Raf Roger To: Community support for Fedora users > > Hi, > > coming from microsoft windows world, i would like to know what is the &

Re: best backup solution

2013-01-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
event of a crash (my philosophy). HTH, Ranjan On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:33:22 +0100 Raf Roger wrote: > Hi, > > coming from microsoft windows world, i would like to know what is the best > backup solution/tool under linux. I'm aware of simple backup suite and > fwbackups, however

best backup solution

2013-01-30 Thread Raf Roger
Hi, coming from microsoft windows world, i would like to know what is the best backup solution/tool under linux. I'm aware of simple backup suite and fwbackups, however i would like to understand the phylosophy behind Linux backup. under windows we used to backup the complete partition