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dreamline

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Hi all,
I've got a question about the backup feature. I'm using it for a while now and noticed that my website(s) are all over 10GB's of data. It seems to me that the backup feature (not the full backup, cause that works) doesn't create .tar's bigger than 10GB. So in case of a restore I have a major problem.. :D

Is there a limit on the backup feature? Because of that I am also using the full system backup, but the latter you can not restore, so I would like to know if the regular backup feature has a limit on GB's?

Thanks... :)
 
doesn't create .tar's bigger than 10GB.
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It doesn't create .tar's it creates .tar.gz's. You do know what .gz is right? The backup file can be about half of the web site's size. It really depends on what type of data it is. Mp3's are not going to compress. Large text files will compress quite a bit.
 
And of course you should always make sure your backups are restorable. We all should :D.

Jeff
 
True... The thing about backups being restorable, but it makes it quite more difficult if the backup feature doesn't tar.gz your whole website. Indeed I've got 2 websites running of which one has loads of mp3's. The other website only has pictures so I would assume that both websites would be backed up, however they aren't.

Both my websites are over 10GB's right now and before it reached 10GB's the backup worked but now that it's over the backup doesn't do it's job anymore... What's the whole point of having a backup feature if it doesn't backup your whole site? Anyways I would figure that the backup feature would split the files into multiple files if it can't tar.gz into one file because it's too big...

:)
 
Well, I haven't looked into any other backup options other than DA, but it would definately be an option to remotely transfer all mp3's to a different server as a backup plan/option.. :) I'll have a look at rsync to see if that fits my needs as long as it is able to tar.gz and transfer the files to another server I think it will meet my needs.. :)

Thanks for the tip though.. :D
 
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Hello,

Is this 10 gig a consitent number or is "around" 10 gig?
See if the file is the exact same size, to the byte, for each run.
The dataskq just runs the tar command like anything else... if it's stopping early, I'm not too sure what that would be. Is it returning any errors in DA?

Just in case, ensure you check the obvious things like free disk space, and quotas for that user.
Code: 
df -h
quota -v [B]username[/B]
John
 
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