Hi Jens,
On Tue, 8 Dec 2015, Jensen, Jens (STFC,RAL,SC) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We need to make some Proper Progress™. We have three options:
>
> 1. Use tar as described earlier, with multivolume backup
>
> 2. Use tar in association with some simple find command to locate files
> with changed mtime and some sort of wrapper to keep tarballs of a
> manageable size.
>
> 3. Use a separate backup script - one of my colleagues is using one for
> a service and it may be usable directly by us.
>
> Requirements:
> (a) archives must be of a manageable size
Correct
> (b) archives should be individually extractable
yes - and each archive must be somehow have some metadata that identify its
contents
> (c) must be able to work unattended
correct - with a means of a restart if it fails due to netowork disruption,
system issues or others.
> (d) must be able to delete archive once it has been transferred
>
Yes!
> Did I miss any options/requirements?
>
No all is really there.
> Anyway, 1 seems to be the preferred option? - the trouble is I can't
> make it work. It doesn't do incremental properly and it doesn't extract
> across chunks unless you read in the whole lot.
>
Could we use snapshots for this? And 'just' archive the changes since the last
snapshot?
Lydia
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