[geeks] Solaris root backups

[Phil Stracchino]

On 7/26/21 7:10 PM, U'll Be King of the Stars wrote:
> On 05/07/2021 22:38, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> when I started thinking about doing so, I realized
>> that I'm not sure how to determine which ones I can safely destroy.
>> I've been unable to quickly find any document that discusses managing
>> them (but perhaps I just haven't found the right search terms).
> 
> I have found this problem (in generality) over and over again.
> 
> I then realized that my problem is that on the one hand I have NAS and 
> backups, and on the other hand is archives, which pretty much never get 
> destroyed.
> 
> I'm currently deciding on my primary and secondary backup servers, the 
> choice is not hard, but the off-site backup is a bit difficult.  I might 
> look into LTO-4 for both off-site backup AND another set of tapes for 
> archives.  I am multimedia engineer so I generate a lot of data, and 
> yes, a lot of it is valuable.
> 
> Does any of this touch on your problem, Phil?
> 
> Andrew


Not really.  :)  But I looked at the creation dates on all of the
filesystems I was looking at, and concluded that considering I have full
separate backups and that those were created during updates, I don't
need any of them.  If I ever have to do a full bare-metal recovery I'll
install direct to 11.4 anyway, or possibly move to an OpenSolaris
implementation.


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