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Sean Reifschneider Subject: BackupPC is good for some things |
BackupPC is a very nice tool for some situations. I was planning on deploying it for our laptop backups, but the workflow I developed for our normal backups is for Ubuntu and Ubuntu was having issues on the system I deployed for our laptop backups. CentOS 5, which I ended up putting on that host, uses packages that required quite a lot more work above what the existing workflow was.
So, that was the motivation that got me to spend some time trying this other backup mechanism. rdiff-backup has some very nice features.
As you say, some database files do need to be dumped or flushed to get a consistent backup. I was speaking primarily of database files that are append-only, or similar files like log files.
Yes, we have thought of using tapes, but they do not really fit our needs. We have also considered agent-based backup systems, but have dismissed them for similar reasons.
For backing up virtual systems we basically just treat them as if they were normal machines. That has served us well.
Sean
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