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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Question on how to backup a grid of servers
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Ben Escoto |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Question on how to backup a grid of servers |
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Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:39:39 -0600 |
>>>>> Vinj Vinj <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:13:44 -0800 (PST)
>
> I have a compute farm which store sqlite db files on each compute
> node. I would like to backup the files to my nfs server. I have a
> couple of questions:
>
> 1. Backup multiple compute node dirs to the same director on the nfs server.
You can only back up one input directory per repository directory.
But you could have multiple target directories in the same directory
of course, like
rdiff-backup host1::/dir /foo/host1
rdiff-backup host2::/dir /foo/host2
etc..
> 2. Have the rdiff program compress the file before backing it up
rdiff-backup uses compression by default.
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Ben Escoto
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