[Box Backup] Boxbackup usage

[Ben Summers]

On 31 May 2006, at 08:41, Martin Ebourne wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 20:27 -0800, Derek Lewis wrote:
>> Can boxbackup be run on the same server with the file system to be  
>> backed
>> up?
>
> Yes that works fine, I do that on one of my machines (purely  
> because box
> handles deleted files and backup retrieval much better than rsync).

Although if they're on the same hard disc, you don't protect against  
hardware failure or other whole disc problems.


>
>> Does boxbackup handle hot swap drives?  If so, does it allow for  
>> spanning a
>> backup session across several drives?
>
> It doesn't specifically handle them, so it will behave the same as any
> other unix program. If you take the fs away it will probably die and
> have to be restarted again later.
>
> It's not possible to span the backup store across several drives  
> (apart
> form the built in raid where they need to all be accessible).

Use hardware RAID if you want to handle discs in interesting ways.  
The userland RAID cannot rebuilt currently, if a disc dies you can  
only recover data.

Ben