From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Damon Getsman Subject: Re: git as backup/DRP; also meta-question about Majordomo Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:56:54 -0600 Message-ID: <274eb6f0903040956t36580a8ayd269f74882724637@mail.gmail.com> References: <274eb6f0903040951g27cb4956u1d101c84952d0090@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 04 18:58:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LevMP-00050E-Tu for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:58:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753438AbZCDR46 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:56:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753304AbZCDR45 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:56:57 -0500 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.30]:64005 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751845AbZCDR44 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:56:56 -0500 Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so2237604yxm.1 for ; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:56:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.85.9 with SMTP id m9mr119886vcl.40.1236189414401; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:56:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <274eb6f0903040951g27cb4956u1d101c84952d0090@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello! :) I've got a couple of questions for y'all. Q1: First of all, I'm being handed a project whereas I am to find and implement some sort of backup system across a wide range of various Linux hosts and a couple of windows machines.=A0 This backup system is to basically be a 'pseudo-TimeVault' if you're familiar with Mac OS/X's current backup system.=A0 I need to be able to roll back to any particular revision. A few of my first thoughts were pretty primitive, and included basically doing periodic compressed tarballs with a rotator to make sure that I don't run out of available space.=A0 These would hold the commonly changing and most important data while a one time master backup would hold the system configuration, etc, etc, so that basically I could create a minimal install on a clone of the same machine, throw on the master backup, then the most recent data, and call it done.=A0 obviously this is an obtuse method for doing so; it is also the method that we're trying to get away from as my predecessor was using an even dumber version of the same scheme. When I started digging, it seemed that 'svn' or 'git' might work well, if able to handle binaries, and definitely for systemwide configuration areas such as /etc.=A0 Finding git+etckeeper was a treasure, especially as I realized that svn wasn't able to hold anything binary at all.=A0 I'm working right now on implementing etckeeper for system configuration repositories, but this still leaves a large portion of what I'd like to work with to the 'dumb tarball' scheme. Since I've come in today I've run across a few blog articles that seem to indicate that git + some customization might be able to handle a larger portion of this for me, thus simplifying what I am trying to do: =A0 * http://eigenclass.org/hiki/gibak-backup-system-introduction <- this link is a prime example Does anybody have any resources or personal tips from utilizations that they're working with to share?=A0 I'd be very much appreciative fo= r anything that can assist me in finding out exactly what I can deploy and, obviously, the howtos (if they exist) for such a scheme. Personal experience in the same areas would be great to hear, too. Thanks in advance on that one! Q2: I haven't found any way to tell the 'majordomo' mailing list software running this list that I am not happy receiving 40-60 emails in my business email inbox per day.=A0 Of course I can use google to filter them, but I'd still rather just get a daily digest if this is at all possible.=A0 Am I missing something obvious? TIA again. ---------- Damon Getsman -=3D-=3D-=3D- ITRx http://www.itrx-nd.com/ Programmer/IT Customer Relations/Sys Admin -=3D-=3D-=3D-