Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days
On 10/22/2015 02:47 AM, Ondřej Grover wrote:
> Thank you Sarunas for the graphs, it is most illuminating. That's pretty
> much how I imagine a storage server should behave.
> Atomic snapshots are very appealing indeed. In my case cp -lr or
> --link-dest solutions would take a long time as the FS hierarchy is both
> very broad and deep.
Ondřej, you're are welcome. “For the sake of science” I restarted the
backups' server yesterday with a kernel boot parameter mem=1G. All the
nightly rsync jobs and btrfs snapshot manipulations went as usual, and
the server is running fine:
https://math.dartmouth.edu/owncloud/index.php/s/fYO81CfmuV5yrpZ
So 1G RAM might still do just fine for such basic tasks.
--
Sarunas Burdulis
Systems Administrator
Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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