[volunteergrid2-l] backup (was: Should we increase the node minimum capacity?)

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I'm mounting VG2 as Windows drive (with PyFilesystem & TahoeLAFS plugin
which I did more a year ago). It's pretty stable, I uploaded hundreds of
gigabytes over it without any issue during tests, then backing my stuff to
VG1 and then when I moved to VG2. I didn't tried it, but every common
backup tool should work on top of PyFilesystem mount without any problem.

Personally I'm using Total Commander for backing up files, because my
content to backup is changing only few times per year (family photos etc).
For my work I'm using the best backup strategy on the world - let other
people mirror my stuff on their FTP ;-).

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On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Christoph Langguth <
> christoph at rosenkeller.org> wrote:
>
>> Speaking of backups: I'm sure that some of you are using some kind of
>> strategy to save (and restore) backups using VG2. Could anyone elaborate on
>> their backup strategy? I'm currently inclined to use duplicity, and would
>> be very grateful for any hints concerning that, or any alternatives.
>
>
> I think the most common approach is "tahoe backup".  It does a good job.
>  Personally I'm using a (half-baked) tool that I built called GridBackup.
>  It's handles backing up large data volumes better, and if I ever get it
> finished will be better all around.  Right now I wouldn't recommend it
> unless you're interested in hacking on it.  The built-in backup/restore
> tool is pretty decent, though.
>
> --
> Shawn
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