Backup Large FileServer
pete wright
nomadlogic at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 09:31:04 PDT 2007
On 9/28/07, Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I've to backup a large window$ 2003 FileServer (~800GB) from my new
> FreeBSD BackupServer (before I can change this fileserver to FreeBSD).
>
> I'm trying cygwin+rsync on FileServer side and rsync+hardlinks on
> BackupServer side.
>
> Using rsync the two great advantages are:
> 1. Only copy the changes
> 2. on the BackupServer side I use hardlinks from the older backups,
> with this only space consumed is from file that where changed.
>
> on the bad side:
> 1. Problems with long pathnames
> 2. Problems with unicode filenames
> 3. Very slow copy ~ 2MB/s (I've doubt if this can be improved using any
> other copy method)
>
>
> I want hear some ideas from the list about the options available to
> accomplish this job.
>
>
Alexandre - have you looked at using something like Bacula:
http://www.bacula.org/
You should get much better performance (you can write your backup to
disk - it does not have to be a tape device) and all windows metadata
etc. should be preserved as well.
-pete
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