Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 20:21:22 -0400 From: Howard Goldstein <hg@queue.to> To: jason+lists.freebsd-questions@lixfeld.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup advice Message-ID: <4654DA82.7040202@queue.to> In-Reply-To: <28E0DBBA-BB24-4D6B-AE65-07EB5254025C@lixfeld.ca> References: <28E0DBBA-BB24-4D6B-AE65-07EB5254025C@lixfeld.ca>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Jason Lixfeld wrote: > - Other folks dumping to a hard drive at night? Care to share any of > your experiences/rationale? Not with dump/restore. After using amanda and a tape drive for eons I'm now happy with a bacula solution to backup 2 freebsds and a windows machine. It does incrementals except on Saturday night when it alternates between a differential (sort of a mass incremental from the last full) and a full backup to a cheap IDE drive. Every Sunday I copy the IDE drive to a USB drive and take it offsite and bring back another one. After restoring from scratch - power supply frying the entire RAID array on my desktop -STABLE machine - I think the advantages of dump are certainly there but for my apps, where I don't have any huge sparse files or a lot of hard links other than whatever gets installed with a fresh install (if anything) to worry about - they're outweighed by the convenience of bacula where I can go back to a point in time. YMMV...
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4654DA82.7040202>