Auspicious sighting of Cat5 the data center cat portends six more weeks of uptime, and possibly a safe mountain crossing todaypic.twitter.com/dvmegczWZV
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The really big backups I do (the ones I have to drive around) are of archived web pages, not database anything. Just a few thousand tgz files per user
Is that the full set or just the delta from the last road trip?
Each box holds one full data center's worth (there are two data centers)
well, I mean, how much do they change every day? that's the idea; you maybe drive the first run, but then you have a daily replication that only moves over the changes. I mean, in the simple case, that's just you drive the data to get it started, then have a nightly rsync.
rsync has a per-file overhead (you can lower that overhead by setting it to only checksum the files with timestamps that have changed, then it's just a stat per file that hasn't changed) That is probably the most your style.
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