[Borgbackup] borgbackup 1.2.0a5 alpha release

[Fabio Pedretti]

Il giorno mer 27 mar 2019 alle ore 10:03 Rainer Traut <tr.ml at gmx.de> ha
scritto:

> Hi list,
>
> Am 26.03.19 um 17:05 schrieb Fabio Pedretti:
> > Il giorno mar 26 mar 2019 alle ore 16:38 Melkor Lord
> > <melkor.lord at gmail.com <mailto:melkor.lord at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
> >
> >     Is there anyone here using Borg in a datacenter infrastructure? With
> a
> >     good deal of servers pushing their data to a "central" backup
> server? I
> >     wonder how you manage it efficiently.
> >
> >     I've read here some stories about huge repos but no story yet about
> >     lots
> >     of clients pushing to a backup server. I'd like some feedback on
> >     that if
> >     you're willing to share your experience.
> >
> >
> > I am using a central borg server  backupping 20 remote clients (which
> > are server themself).
> > The borg server mount with NFS automount the needed directory of the
> > remotes (exported with read only mode).
> > Then it start a sequential backup of the 20 servers, using a single
> > repository. This way deduplication is improved, also I found it a bit
> > more simpler and cleaner.
> > Just make sure to set the BORG_FILES_CACHE_TTL variable to a number
> > bigger than the number of servers, to avoid emptying the cache (I set it
> > to 4x the servers number).
> > Using that since some years, working beautifully.
> > 1.2 should also hopefully improve this scenario, since I could do a
> > manual compaction just 1 single time after the 20 daily backups, rather
> > than being forced for all the 20 servers. Probably saving around
> > 3minutes * 20 servers ~ 1 hour every day (just a guess).
>
> Yes, I'm doing the same with sshfs and the borg opts:
>
> borg create --files-cache=ctime,size
>
> so that caching works.
>
> Can I omit that with NFS?
>

I think so, NFS should have stable inodes.


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ing. Fabio Pedretti
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