On Jun 21, 2005, at 4:19 PM, Dirk Schenkewitz wrote:
> (Sorry, I forgot again *slaps self resends to the list*)
Heh. I did the same thing. :-)
On Jun 21, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Dirk Schenkewitz wrote:
>
>
>> My backup process actually uses both. I use a hotcopy to create
>> a backup of the entire repository to an onsite backup server, and
>> use an incremental dump to send all of the changes made since the
>> last backup to an offsite backup server.
>>
>>
>
> Hmm, why incremental? That means you must keep all previous
> incremental
> dumps. Why not full dumps every time and replace/overwrite the
> previous
> ones? (Except you burn them on CD every time you have enough data.)
>
You'll notice that I said it goes to an offsite backup server. Maybe
I wasn't clear that the data is sent to the offsite server over a
network. Sending the entire repository every night would be
prohibitive, but sending only the day's changes is very reasonable
(given the average daily changes on our repository). Since n
incremental dumps aren't appreciatively larger in totality than a
single all-encompassing dump it really isn't a big deal to keep all
of the incremental dumps around.
If you really see keeping the incremental dumps around as a problem,
though, one solution would be to have the backup server automatically
load the dumps into a local repository as it gets them. Then that
reconstructed repository could be backed up (or dumped to one big
dump file).
-Bill
>
> Thanks!
> Dirk
>
>
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