[aklug] Re: easy backup software

> * John Heim <john@johnheim.com> [2014-07-11 15:30 -0500]:
>
> Any recommendations for backup software? I would like it to make a tar.gz
>> daily of a list of files and directories. If it can exclude files and
>> folders in another list, that would be good. And it has to automatically
>> rotate the backups. Finally, if it can take credentials for a remote rsync
>> or sftp server, that would be good and copy the files there, that would be
>> good.
>>
>>
Along the lines of what Dave said, but different; I use rdiff-backup [
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ ] which may not precisely meet your
requirements. It can do includes and excludes, and (if scripted) purge old
backups. It can do passwordless (ssh key) remote backups, either push or
pull. (If you can install rdiff-backup on both servers, that is.) It does
not make a daily tar.gz, per se; instead it keeps a live uncompressed copy
of "right now", the current backup, and uses reverse deltas (.gz
compressed) to store previous revisions. This is a major advantage if
non-techie people need to copy the last current backup, since it's easy to
make a read-only samba share of the backup directory, for example.

It also is rsync-efficient on the wire, so quite effective for remote
backups.

jermudgeon

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Received on Sat Jul 12 20:48:46 2014