Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:24:54 +0200 From: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Subject: Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd? Message-ID: <1223317494.1307.13.camel@rivendell.lan> In-Reply-To: <20081006173815.GA46342@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <48E9E146.9040308@ispro.net.tr> <20081006173815.GA46342@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Sorry for once more but: you can make incremental backups every x minutes with Bacula too .. it only takes one or two minutes on my box to scan for changed files for ~150GB (even faster if you tweak it a bit). It's not really a "true" continuous backup solution, but it's perfectly possible to restore directories/files for changes which occurred x minutes ago, and with retention periods of x days/months/years. On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 19:38 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for > > FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything. > > I don't think so. The closest thing I know of is rsnapshot > (http://www.rsnapshot.org/). > > My solution is to run rsync in a cron job. In my situation this takes > about 5 minutes for approximately 100GB of data. The time it takes will > obviously depend on the rate of change in the data. > > You could also use local snapshots with mksnap_ffs(8), to solve the "oh > shit I deleted my files" situation. > > Roland
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