Hello, folks! I could recommend rdiff for incremental snapshots. It works fine for enough small images but need patches in algorithm for huge snapshots.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Philipp Born <phil...@tamcore.eu> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > I would say so. It gives you incremental and full backups. It misuses > snapshots for incremental backups, which has the downside of requiring > "a bit" more free diskspace on your node. But doing backups this way > is also faster than rsync'ing the whole container each time. > > I'm using my script now since seven months and so far I have no reason > to switch to something different. Before that I've tried pure > rsync'ing and stuff like rsnapshot, but I like it more this way. > > On 28.04.2015 11:12, Steffan Noord wrote: >> Is this better then just rsync the container ? >> >> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: users-boun...@openvz.org >> [mailto:users-boun...@openvz.org] Namens Philipp Born Verzonden: >> zaterdag 25 april 2015 14:23 Aan: users@openvz.org Onderwerp: Re: >> [Users] Ploop Incremental backups strategy >> >> Hi, >> >> this is eactly what I'm doing. Have a look at >> https://github.com/TamCore/vzpbackup >> >> Regards Philipp >> >> On 01.04.2015 14:22, Simon Barrett wrote: >>> Hi all, >> >>> Is there any reason why I should not create snapshot a >>> ploop-backed container each day (or hour, for that matter) then >>> merge all outstanding snapshots at the end of the week (vzctl >>> snapshot-delete) and compact it? This would allow me to do >>> efficient incremental backups to back up (using bacula, in this >>> case) and I would imagine it's a core use case. >> >>> Are there any potential risks to be aware of (performance issues, >>> storage usage, corruption exposure)? >> >>> Regards, >> >>> Simon >> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list >> Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list >> Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVQoTvAAoJEJrmlNhNgL+IsSAP+QHuflNO2aMWW8KM+K+kY1Rh > 0ccz9dBFs6bBnCi7kAoVpXD9nvFRMctyPrU5heUmKIPFpDnmdJQIs+f7AIVoJ2vR > A3ouO3wGyn4SPbUtNenxZxQfkhnTwJwaLsdVrnNb056lmLohG/tZCLvagG+iYfY3 > gypQFzcQlIiXPZJeFaFRDY+YWC4lLRiDBCdU4iKcAr5YxYjWxgZMtTbMw7f9FsbP > faW3Uofnm+vGTkflUp3kvisGX3Y/EB7n9+FV37jbAyLnk8GhXcnZsECwmVFV5A53 > 6/fNhvh3ZuV2r4zqcRab8XgrAnmRMdQVFdTP21XdBpvlC5Je0opfWB+M4ATJOAUW > 8HVi0KpIz8S35/qmfBSWo6cmwixhmkOI/IqBJ7rod5VzZFmQQoXJgSNdKOQ3aEK+ > fbxtSmXlLST/xcYiTkQPKYVflVpBzA6Lli0bVQAiYPxo1fqxx5iu9eUdqWk1nx3K > VbS2AcJNb41OiSLenAn39ICPXIZD1QdFnTrh7X6oevVCpkOKUbbDO8eWBk46owu6 > uK659gVn3xxq+O2Tle31/119UD7fJ264MmZTykJqkidxr1oXcVoMyLgaoS4sbab+ > o/HSGt9iYtII3ANSgv0Tr5D9MscmfaykMHnAz9eWVu7aOIqO1ZFJAX+OBSV6iOwd > hFBiNW9cYQ2nBJlAqmvi > =/YzI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openvz.org > https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
