[Users] Ploop Incremental backups strategy

Pavel Odintsov pavel.odintsov at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 13:10:40 PDT 2015


Hello, folks!

I could recommend rdiff for incremental snapshots. It works fine for
enough small images but need patches in algorithm for huge snapshots.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Philipp Born <philipp at tamcore.eu> wrote:
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> I would say so. It gives you incremental and full backups. It misuses
> snapshots for incremental backups, which has the downside of requiring
> "a bit" more free diskspace on your node. But doing backups this way
> is also faster than rsync'ing the whole container each time.
>
> I'm using my script now since seven months and so far I have no reason
> to switch to something different. Before that I've tried pure
> rsync'ing and stuff like rsnapshot, but I like it more this way.
>
> On 28.04.2015 11:12, Steffan Noord wrote:
>> Is this better then just rsync the container ?
>>
>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: users-bounces at openvz.org
>> [mailto:users-bounces at openvz.org] Namens Philipp Born Verzonden:
>> zaterdag 25 april 2015 14:23 Aan: users at openvz.org Onderwerp: Re:
>> [Users] Ploop Incremental backups strategy
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> this is eactly what I'm doing. Have a look at
>> https://github.com/TamCore/vzpbackup
>>
>> Regards Philipp
>>
>> On 01.04.2015 14:22, Simon Barrett wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>
>>> Is there any reason why I should not create snapshot a
>>> ploop-backed container each day (or hour, for that matter) then
>>> merge all outstanding snapshots at the end of the week (vzctl
>>> snapshot-delete) and compact it?  This would allow me to do
>>> efficient incremental backups to back up (using bacula, in this
>>> case) and I would imagine it's a core use case.
>>
>>> Are there any potential risks to be aware of (performance issues,
>>>  storage usage, corruption exposure)?
>>
>>> Regards,
>>
>>> Simon
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