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[Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?
- Subject: [Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?
- From: jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:56:10 -0400
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When I backup Postgresql databases, I use pg_dumpall to dump the data into a text file; I don't try to backup the binary database files. I'm not familiar with MongoDB, but I would be surprised if it didn't have a similar option to dump its data to a text file. On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/28/2015 1:04 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > >> I think you are both right. Ed is right because it is a precise >> image (snapshot) of an albeit inconsistent filesystem. >> > > I get that now. He is correct in that his snapshots are approximately what > the guests look like when the power is yanked. Whether or not those > snapshots are usable is still a problem. It's not just legacy applications > and operating systems. If you try this with MongoDB for example you are > guaranteed to have non-working databases in your snapshots. > > -- > Rich P. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6
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