Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days
Date	2015-10-21 16:10 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:32:06AM +0200, Ondřej Grover wrote:
> --lnk-dest is a nice feature of rsync, however, it would require me to
> write yet another custom script that so many people already have and
> reinvent the wheel again. I'm trying to find a ready and time-tested and
> maintained solution before I go down that path. The rsynch handler in
> backupninja does pretty much the same thing, but uses cp -l as --link-dest
> did not exist back when it was written. Nevertheless, I'd prefer
> block-level deduplication and compression.
> 
> Your btrfs setup sounds interesting, Sarunas. Are you running those btrfs
> volumes on Jessie? Any stability issues? Do you think it could work with
> just 1GB RAM + 1 GB swap? I was thinking about doing out-of-band
> deduplication to conserve RAM. Do you use both compression and
> deduplication (file or block level)? I heard they don't play nicely
> together. Could you share your mount options?

Deduplication is a RAM hog on zfs and I don't know anybody using
it on btrfs.

Why does your backup server only have 1 GB RAM?

-dsr-

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Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Ondřej Grover <ondrej.grover@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 19:00 +0200
  Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Mario Castelán Castro  <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-20 19:50 +0200
    Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-10-20 20:20 +0200
      Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2015-10-27 12:40 +0100
        Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-10-27 16:40 +0100
  Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu> - 2015-10-20 21:10 +0200
    Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Ondřej Grover <ondrej.grover@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 11:40 +0200
      Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days mourik jan heupink <heupink@merit.unu.edu> - 2015-10-21 13:30 +0200
        Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days mourik jan heupink <heupink@merit.unu.edu> - 2015-10-21 13:40 +0200
      Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2015-10-21 13:30 +0200
      Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2015-10-21 16:10 +0200
      Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu> - 2015-10-21 16:30 +0200
        Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Ondřej Grover <ondrej.grover@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 16:50 +0200
          Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu> - 2015-10-21 17:10 +0200
            Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Ondřej Grover <ondrej.grover@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 08:50 +0200
              Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu> - 2015-10-22 16:10 +0200
  Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-22 18:30 +0200

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