Comments for Levi McCormick http://levimccormick.com .com Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:51:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Windows Backups using DeltaCopy by Levi http://levimccormick.com/2010/01/29/windows-backups-using-deltacopy/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Levi Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:51:35 +0000 http://levimccormick.com/?p=5#comment-121 Most of my servers would complete in a weekend. There were a few, but I just killed the backup and started it again the next weekend. Since it transfers diff's, I could just keep rerunning it until I had a good backup set. One of the servers, I used the excludes file to avoid backing up some large folders, and then removed each line every weekend until it was all transferred. All said, it took about 2 months before all my data was backed up. Most of my servers would complete in a weekend. There were a few, but I just killed the backup and started it again the next weekend. Since it transfers diff’s, I could just keep rerunning it until I had a good backup set. One of the servers, I used the excludes file to avoid backing up some large folders, and then removed each line every weekend until it was all transferred.

All said, it took about 2 months before all my data was backed up.

]]> Comment on Windows Backups using DeltaCopy by Mark Breaux http://levimccormick.com/2010/01/29/windows-backups-using-deltacopy/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Mark Breaux Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:03:33 +0000 http://levimccormick.com/?p=5#comment-120 did you have to seed the first full backup? I am thinking of using BackupExec to do a local backup and then just using rsync on the backup folder. Is that possible? The problem is that the first backup would take forever. did you have to seed the first full backup? I am thinking of using BackupExec to do a local backup and then just using rsync on the backup folder. Is that possible? The problem is that the first backup would take forever.

]]> Comment on Windows Backups using DeltaCopy by Levi http://levimccormick.com/2010/01/29/windows-backups-using-deltacopy/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Levi Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:42:54 +0000 http://levimccormick.com/?p=5#comment-3 Rsync is a linux/unix utility that does incremental transfers. So if your file is say A7B924G01 and you change it to A7B924001, it will send "change position 7 to 0" as a very rough example. It isn't great for backing up database files, but for static files, it's wonderful. One of our products is a corn burning stove and the assembly file in Solidworks is like 600MB. Every time they change a component, rsync only copies the bits that changed in that file, rather than copying the whole file to the backup. It sped up our backups and allowed me to push the data offsite. A bonus was keeping old versions of files, for rollback if necessary. Look into using rsync for your projects. It can be configured to run at any increment, so you could do backups every 10 minutes or every hour. And make sure those backups are offsite. I can't stress this one enough. Rsync is a linux/unix utility that does incremental transfers. So if your file is say A7B924G01 and you change it to A7B924001, it will send “change position 7 to 0″ as a very rough example. It isn’t great for backing up database files, but for static files, it’s wonderful. One of our products is a corn burning stove and the assembly file in Solidworks is like 600MB. Every time they change a component, rsync only copies the bits that changed in that file, rather than copying the whole file to the backup. It sped up our backups and allowed me to push the data offsite. A bonus was keeping old versions of files, for rollback if necessary.

Look into using rsync for your projects. It can be configured to run at any increment, so you could do backups every 10 minutes or every hour. And make sure those backups are offsite. I can’t stress this one enough.

]]> Comment on Windows Backups using DeltaCopy by Evan R http://levimccormick.com/2010/01/29/windows-backups-using-deltacopy/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Evan R Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:50:23 +0000 http://levimccormick.com/?p=5#comment-2 That seems quick, and I never heard of Rsync I will have to check it out. How does the Rsync work? That seems quick, and I never heard of Rsync I will have to check it out. How does the Rsync work?

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