Re: non-interactive ftp
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:11:50PM -0500, Phil Dyer wrote:
> Marek Podmaka said:
> > But tar (and tar.gz) isn't good for selective restore. Imagine you
> > have 5GB .tar.gz backup file of customer's data. And he wants just
> > one small file... unpacking it would take a lot of time (and CPU
> > resources gunziping entire 5GB till that file is found in .tar).
>
> Imagine that the customer needs a file from 7 days ago but you don't
> have it *at all* because you didn't have enough disk space to store it.
Quite. That's why I like MEEP (http://www.woods.iki.fi/pub/meep/). It's a
simple perl script that uses rsync and hardlinks to create full backups that
don't take much space (above what's required for the first copy). So your
2nd/3rd/... day backup are pretty much free in terms in diskspace, provided
your content does not change all that much from day to day...
Ward.
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