Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

From	Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days
Date	2015-10-22 16:10 +0200
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On 10/22/2015 02:47 AM, Ondřej Grover wrote:
> Thank you Sarunas for the graphs, it is most illuminating. That's pretty
> much how I imagine a storage server should behave.
> Atomic snapshots are very appealing indeed. In my case cp -lr or
> --link-dest solutions would take a long time as the FS hierarchy is both
> very broad and deep.

Ondřej, you're are welcome. “For the sake of science” I restarted the
backups' server yesterday with a kernel boot parameter mem=1G. All the
nightly rsync jobs and btrfs snapshot manipulations went as usual, and
the server is running fine:

https://math.dartmouth.edu/owncloud/index.php/s/fYO81CfmuV5yrpZ

So 1G RAM might still do just fine for such basic tasks.

-- 
Sarunas Burdulis
Systems Administrator
Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas

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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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