[aklug] Re: Backups

Not worth much, but I use a combination of raid 1 and rysnc with a little partimage depending on the data and partitions. Everything is automated, god I love it. I've also begun using a ideal at home of if I ain't using it, turn it off. This sees two machines up with a nice decrease in my electric bill :) No more room cooling required, no more ear plugs (joking), and most of all a content girlfriend (not joking).

2 cents,
--eddie

> From: joshua@eeinternet.com
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: [aklug] Re: Backups
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:14:44 -0800
> CC: choward@indicium.us
>
> On Wednesday 29 April 2009, Christopher Howard said something like:
> > Just thinking about my backups... I currently have a fairly simply
> > backup system with rsync copying the data to my backup server as part
> > of a nightly cron job.
> >
> > Do any of you guys do anything more complicated, like diff or
> > incremental backups? The downside of my current method is that I can
> > only pull backups from the night before (rather than, say, get a
> > backup from three days ago). I was pondering some kind of weekly full
> > backup + daily incremental backup scheme, but not quite sure how to
> > do that.
>
> You can have rsync do hardlinks for unchanged files on the remote side,
> but this relies on having a directory structure on the remote side that
> has one directory for each day, or having a script on the remote side
> which moves directories around. (This could be done by an SSH call
> before the rsync).
>
> For GUI, the is a KDE utility called Keep that works well, I think
> (never used it).
>
> For more complex, I highly recommend Bacula. I've done four bacula
> deployments (from a two computer office to a 20 computer + 10 server
> office) and it works well and is dead reliable. It takes some doing to
> get set up, but once set up, it is truly "fire and forget." Unless of
> course, you need to swap out tapes.
>
> j
>
>
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