[lug] [Slightly OT] File Management?

[Rob Nagler]

On 3/24/09, Lee Woodworth wrote:
>  Is it a hard requirement to keep point-in-time views of the whole
>  backup set for each day?

Yes, and that's actually too infrequent.  We run one standby db which
backups up hourly.  Unlike Google, we can't just slap a "beta" tag on
our logo and people will assume it works anyway.  (BTW, I've lots a
Google Calendar once so now I back those up, too. :-)

>  For my small backups (56GB) this runs in 3min to a usb disk (but only 0.5%
> changed
>  files) - its ~225k files with a variety of file sizes (with lots of small
> files)

To backup my laptop, there are about 80K files in 10GB.  I do that
with rsync over 100mbps.  Since there's not much change (.1%) it only
takes 30 secs.

Rob