http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2013/04/the-btrfs-backup-experiment/ Today we’re talking about our experience with btrfs, the next-gen Linux filesystem. btrfs has been maturing rapidly over the last few years and offers many compelling features for modern systems, so we’ve been putting it through its paces on some of our backup servers. How does it stack up? Read on!
http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2013/04/the-btrfs-backup-experiment/ Today we’re talking about our experience with btrfs, the next-gen Linux filesystem. btrfs has been maturing rapidly over the last few years and offers many compelling features for modern systems, so we’ve been putting it through its paces on some of our backup servers. How does it stack up? Read on!
http://www.halfgaar.net/backing-up-unix General notes about backup systems, useful when u need to explain something to other ppl, – use can use this notes instead of writing your own. (no info about “advanced” topics, like differential, incremental, reverse vs forward deltas, bare-metal recovery, check sums, etc. )
http://zumastor.org/man/ddsnap.8.html a way to ‘sync’ block devices in ‘rsync’ style. Useful to implement backup of xen VMs based on LVM volumes. Also see http://serverfault.com/questions/27397/sync-lvm-snapshots-to-backup-server
https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/ PITRTools is a set of wrapper scripts that provide warm standby functionality to PostgreSQL. The software is essentially two scripts, cmd_archiver.py and cmd_standby.py. The project is under the BSD license.
http://www.halfgaar.net/why-power-failures-are-bad-for-your-data artilcle tells what happens when u pull the plug … in short nothing good will happen, so use UPS! read article for details
http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=569200 CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION makebackup()
http://www.haifux.org/lectures/153/lvm2.html sort of a lecture slides/presenation that contains a useful explaination how several LVM2 features actually work (i.e. backup)
http://www.linux.com/feature/125322 small tools to rsync encrypted files
http://gpl.internetconnection.net/ various tools under GPL license , interestining are: