X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A149FA18C for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:30:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00550-05 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:30:24 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5DD9FA17D for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:30:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6020E585869 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:30:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01179-02; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:27:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77E9585849; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:27:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AADA55C2A0; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:27:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4CEB36C4B; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:27:48 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:27:48 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: scrappy@ganymede.hub.org To: Dan Langille cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: backup infrastructure In-Reply-To: <45081FAC.22347.1BF48B3@dan.langille.org> Message-ID: <20060913180808.X36880@ganymede.hub.org> References: <45081FAC.22347.1BF48B3@dan.langille.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.523 tagged_above=0 required=5 WHITELISTED tests=AWL, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE, FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200609/72 X-Sequence-Number: 10650 On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote: > On 6 Sep 2006 at 15:30, Dan Langille wrote: > >> Gidday folks, >> >> One way I can contribute my services to the project is in the form of >> backup services. You tell me what files need to be backed up from what >> servers, and it'll be done on the frequency required. >> >> Restores can be arranged for those that have admin access. We can >> keep a designated number of backups online, for immediate access. >> Older backups will be stored offline. >> >> Bacula is my tool of choice. Let me know how I can help. > > Is the lack of response a verification that no help is required or > did I pick a bad time? What is needed on the vServer side of things? A client, I assume? And how much data is it safe to backup? postgresql.org is up to 24G in size, and growing ... :) We're in the process of setting up a full backup to a remote server *just in case*, but that will include *all* files, so that we could fail over as required ... so I'm not sure whether or not there would be a benefit to 'per file backups', but I'm not against it either if others here feel that this would help ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664