[TriLUG] Your State of Practice for Backups?

[Ivan Panarusky]

My backup plan?

tar /home /tmp/backup.tar
bzip /tmp/backup.tar
mv /tmp/backup.tar.bz2 /mnt/Volume_1

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Shawn Hartsock <hartsock at acm.org> wrote:

> Now that's a nifty setup! I may have to do this at home. Not exactly
> the right answer for our "enterprisey" stuff I would think... but damn
> if that isn't a fun little idea.
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
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> >> Fair warning though: to get decent backup throughput, you need something
> >> fairly beefy for your backup server. BackupPC computes checksums of
> files
> >> for deduplication, so cpu, memory, and disks are taxed.
> >
> > That being said, I run BackupPC at home on a SheevaPlug.
> >
> http://www.slashgear.com/marvell-sheevaplug-99-linux-pc-hidden-in-a-wall-wart-2435556/
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> > Before that, I ran it on a junker 700 MHz Pentium-III with 256 MB of RAM.
> > For home use, either one of those works just fine.
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> > Alan
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