Re: [BackupPC-users] Thank you very much

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bac...@li... wrote on 04/01/2007 12:38:08 
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> I'm backing up Lotus Domino E-Mail DBs via rsync every night  (yeah,
> i know that this isn't exactly the best way to do this.) with round 
> about 75 GB uncompressed 
> and that takes some 380 minutes. Could proberbly be a lot faster if 
> I didn't use rsync (rather stupid for notes DBs anyway - but its ok 
> for me) and a P3 1.26 Ghz is not exactly the 
> fastest machine - takes quite long to gzip 75 Gigs... Anyway it 
> finishes over night and thats all I care about. 

I do *exactly* the same with a number of Domino servers.  I'm using even 
slower backup hardware:  VIA EPIA MII 1GHz with 512MB RAM.  The biggest 
server is about 50GB of mail databases that get backed up nightly via 
rsyncd with minimal problems.

The biggest problem is that keeping a series of incrementals and fulls 
consumes *tons* of disk space, but short of using transaction logging, 
*any* form of backup is going to suffer from this.  I truly love the 
convenience of having a series of NSF's that I can simply open if I need 
to, so I'll waste the space, rather than deal with transaction logging...

Oddly enough, my biggest problem is over the weekends, where the *lack* of 
a blackout period tends to get things out of whack.  I'm actually tempted 
to extend the blackout periods over the weekend, just to keep things in 
lockstep.

Tim Massey