J C Lawrence wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:04:43 -0700 Bill Anderson <bill.anderson@libc.org> wrote:
Zope is a cakewalk to backup and restore. Data.fs files gzip nicely, and bzip2 even better ;)
My complaint there is the fact that data.fs is monolithic makes it difficult to impossible to segment your data for more useful backup/redundancy strategies.
Not entirely. Say you have a virtual server setup, with virtual domains in /spam and /eggs . You want to backup spam, but not eggs, on a daily basis. Use ZClient to automatically export the /spam folder to spam.zexp, and back that file up. This is actually on my platter of things-to-do-when-I-get-copius-spare-time (or someone pays me to do it ;). Currently, I manually export the folder/portal/whatever, bzip2-it, and back that up. Hmmm ... random thought .... Perhaps this could be used as a means for determinig some sort of disk-usage equivilent for hosting providers? Export the person/company's folder, and measure the size of it? It may or not be truly representative, but it could be useful? -- In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. -- Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900