With C-ISAM it is a useable state.
-- Of what good are dead warriors? ? Warriors are those who desire battle more than peace. Those who seek battle despite peace. Those who thump their spears on the ground and talk of honor. Those who leap high the battle dance and dream of glory ? The good of dead warriors, Mother, is that they are dead. Sheri S Tepper: The Awakeners.
I'm told that, in fact, TM does have this issue.
I also discovered that TM can use any number of drives and uses them round-robin. If the next one is not mounted it just skips it. So I've added a third drive that was just kicking around. It's a USB SSD so easy to remove.
-- Tim
One of the nice aspects of running apps/services in docker containers is that it encourages you to define data volumes and hence to immediately know what needs to be backed up.
CG> When you backup a 1TB drive do you actually copy the whole 1TB? It's CG> a huge waste of time and space and you can't keep so many backups. CG> Use some form of incremental backup and also backup *selectively*.
No... I mean on my BBS box, I do backup all /files and... it's literally 500GB or so. But of course, for my Linux I'm just backing up /home and a few other spots where I hold my personal files. I also use a package that takes a 'snapshot' or basically a LISTING of every installed package on the system.
Sometimes I'll forget what setup I have going, and I can go thru that listing and select what to reinstall very quickly.
But, still, I'm backing up enough that speeds matter. I mean... don't speeds kinda always matter, anyway?
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What OS do you use on the BBS box?
Have you tried rsync and/or rsnapshot?
I used to back up my house server using tar with the compress (gzip) option and a relatively small group of files/directories skipped such as /tmp - that took 3.5 hours a night, backing up to a USB hard drive. Now I'm using rsnapshot to keep 7 daily backups plus another 4 weeklies and the typical backup time has dropped to 8 minutes for the daily run and 9 minutes for the weekly one.
-- Martin | martin at Gregorie | gregorie dot org
MG> > No... I mean on my BBS box, I do backup all /files and... it's literally MG> > 500GB or so. But of course, for my Linux I'm just backing up /home and a MG> > few other spots where I hold my personal files. I also use a package MG> > that takes a 'snapshot' or basically a LISTING of every installed MG> > package on the system. MG> > MG> What OS do you use on the BBS box?
Raspberry Pi OS
MG> > But, still, I'm backing up enough that speeds matter. MG> > I mean... don't speeds kinda always matter, anyway? MG> Have you tried rsync and/or rsnapshot?
I use rsync and yea, it only takes minutes per night unless I've added tons of files to the bases...
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