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Re: DSLR Restore Progress said by IamGimli:said by Chuckcar_t:He should've done incremental backups in which case it would've cost him nothing. Now how much could text possibly take up? There were very few pictures and all for nothing if the bloke just did those incremental backups. Note: Always remember to do incremental backups no matter who you are!
You really should get a clue about the topic at hand before you go mouthing off about what other people should do. Right now, you just sound like a complete and utter tool. ive got backups of my website dont all website owners? |
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| said by funny:said by IamGimli:said by Chuckcar_t:He should've done incremental backups in which case it would've cost him nothing. Now how much could text possibly take up? There were very few pictures and all for nothing if the bloke just did those incremental backups. Note: Always remember to do incremental backups no matter who you are!
You really should get a clue about the topic at hand before you go mouthing off about what other people should do. Right now, you just sound like a complete and utter tool. ive got backups of my website dont all website owners? Oh yeah? Do you run a forum with 10,000+ members? Is your incremental backup of a forum with 10,000+ members only text that doesn't take any space? Is your incremental backup free? Have you ever tried to actually restore your incremental backup? How successful was that?
I think my original post bears repeating. |
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 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
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kudos:20 | said by IamGimli:Oh yeah? Do you run a forum with 10,000+ members? Is your incremental backup of a forum with 10,000+ members only text that doesn't take any space? Is your incremental backup free? Have you ever tried to actually restore your incremental backup? How successful was that?
I think my original post bears repeating.
I'd like to introduce you to my friends LVM snapshots (for a consistent starting state), rsync (for efficient transfer of incremental data), ZFS snapshots (for efficient storage and retrieval of incremental data), and Percona XtraBackup (for consistent hot mysql backups)... This is not a terribly difficult problem to solve, as it's a problem that *everybody* has had for a very long time. As such, there are a lot of easy solutions. Yes, it takes some effort, but it can be done extremely cheaply and it doesn't take a huge amount of effort.
A backup can look something like this:
1) Initiate a MySQL hot backup
2) Create an LVM snapshot to freeze filesystem state
3) Rsync the filesystem and SQL dump changes to backup server
4) Create a ZFS snapshot once the copy completes, giving you nightly incremental checkpoints that you can refer against
You can also do things like replicate the MySQL database to the backup server directly so that you don't have to copy the dump over the network at backup time.
Since a backup server doesn't need crazy performance (just decent reliability), you can build a backup server with a ton of redundant storage very cheaply. You just need a big chassis, a few RAID controllers, and a ton of enterprise-grade SATA drives (which can be found in 2 or 3 TB sizes, no 4TB for enterprise yet).
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| said by Guspaz:I'd like to introduce you to my friends [...] None of which has anything to do with the author of the post I responded to suggesting that incremental backups were the end-all, be-all of backups and that they were free, didn't take any space and could solve everyone's disaster recovery issues, which is all bullshit from someone who has absolutely no clue what a disaster recovery plan looks like.
I just find it silly the number of morons who think because they have an account on DSLR they're suddenly in a position to tell people how to run their systems even though they clearly have no fricking clue about the topic. |
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DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
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kudos:6 | reply to IamGimli
Re: DSLR Restore Progress said by IamGimli:....I just find it silly the number of morons who think because they have an account on DSLR....
One irony is that the person to whom you were responding was usually an anon poster, though he used a consistently recognizable algorithm for the names he chose, and only AFTER the fit hit the shan at DSLR, it was only THEN that he actually setup an account here.
The tone of his remarks has frequently been similar to the one which got your goat. |
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| said by Davesnothere:*usually* an anon poster, though he used a consistently recognizable algorithm for the names he chose,
Well he became an anon-poster, but he remarks have a lot in common with "chronoss" of way back when... so our on again off again anon poster is probably just a re-branded regular fixture/nuisance 
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By the same logic "morons who think because they have an account on DSLR" should also apply to the person that pointed that out to everyone?
Disclaimer: I am just an anon and have no active accounts on DSLR... |
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kudos:6 | Some of our best posters are anon. It doesn't make anyone's contributions 'less' of anything because they don't have an account.
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said by El Quintron:Well he became an anon-poster, but he remarks have a lot in common with "chronoss" of way back when... so our on again off again anon poster is probably just a re-branded regular fixture/nuisance
Whoa. I don't think anyone comes close to chronos... well ok, that "chuck" guy I guess you are all talking about is somewhat close... but still... it isn't really that close. Magnitudes apart.
The crap the guy would make up in his mind was truly amazing. But then again he was hospitalized for the stuff his mind made up, so he had a reason and no choice i guess.
Magnitudes apart. Not even close. |
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Re: DSLR Restore Progress said by Enter Name :....Magnitudes apart. Not even close.
And a wonderful afternoon to YOU, 'Mister Videotronanon' !
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said by Enter Name :said by El Quintron:Well he became an anon-poster, but he remarks have a lot in common with "chronoss" of way back when... so our on again off again anon poster is probably just a re-branded regular fixture/nuisance
Whoa. I don't think anyone comes close to chronos... well ok, that "chuck" guy I guess you are all talking about is somewhat close... but still... it isn't really that close. Magnitudes apart. funny=chuck=chronoss what pretty much what I was implying.
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It's not like i just put an ad in the want ads of the newspaper. Wanted login-er. You have to login for me at least twice per day forever. I pay top dollar. I'll tell you one thing if i don't have to login i won't because it's a nuisance. |
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