[Dirvish] Backup multiple server at the same time

[Eric Searcy]

On Feb 8, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Jarkko Ypäjä wrote:

> I noticed that even I have all the backups running at the same time  
> 22:00 it seems that the Dirvish is backupping only one server at a  
> time, at least while doing dirvish --vault root --init.

Nobody seems to have mentioned it yet in this thread, but the 22:00  
under your Runall: section isn't the time the backup is done, but  
rather the timestamp given to the backup after it has finished.  There  
is usually some confusion about it, search for image_time in the  
dirvish.conf man page.

> Because it takes up to 6-8 hours to backup one server and the server  
> which is running the backups isn't really having any resources used  
> it would be great to have multiple servers backupping at once.


If you know how to use the `patch' tool and don't mind running patched  
tools on your server, check out my patch for running concurrent  
backups without having to set up separate dirvish.conf files:

Here's the email I sent ... still has no follow-ups/feedback on the  
list :-( ... :
http://www.dirvish.org/pipermail/dirvish/2007-September/001467.html

And here's the patch (also available as a link from the above email):
http://www.dirvish.org/pipermail/dirvish/attachments/20070906/fe44d12b/attachment.obj

Hope that helps.

-- 
Eric Searcy
OSU Open Source Lab



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