Re: [Gnumed-devel] update database - no problem

[syan tan]

On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 23:57 +0200, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> This weekend I have finally gotten around to update our production server 
> using GNUmed as a document archive for the proprietory software Turbomed. All 
> I had to do was run the provided update script. This took care of a backup 
> and started the update process. The backup which included compressing it with 
> bzip took about 5 hours for a 5 Gigabyte database containing roughly 1500 
> patients and up to 20 documents per patient.
> 
> The client has been installed on the Windows hosts and runs without problems.
> 

what sort of hardware for backup ?  

anyone using partition image backup , or snapshot filesystem backup ,
and howto ?