Re: BackupPC 4.0 features - attribute file and backup storage
John Rouillard <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:52:30PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > John Rouillard wrote at about 21:01:53 +0000 on Thursday, March 3, 2011: > > We run is an automatic build server and rely on backups to recover > > prior builds of software as a last fallback to recover from a bad > > software build/install. Without actual files located under the pc tree > > is there a way to search (cf. gnu locate or find) for a file matching > > a particular regular expressions (e.g. python-orif.*.rpm) so I can go > > to that backup and restore the file? > > That's an interesting point -- a lot of us have gotten used to doing > f-mangled searches and/or wild-card listings of backups. > > Fuse filesystem search would be relatively slow since it would still > need to read all the attrib files and rebuild deltas. Similarly, for > any routine that rebuilds based on the atrrib files. Well fuse filesystem isn't that great if you are running backuppc on solaris or *bsd so you can use zfs. I think netbsd supports it and I know there was some opensolaris support for fuse, but I still consider fuse on solaris not ready for production use. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-devel mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/