I use rsync in via a bash script. But a little more.
My script creates an rsync working directory from the remote target.
Then the working directory is compressed into a tar.gz directory given
the day name of the backup, giving me a weekly backup. Then once a week
the Friday backup is moved into a "week of the month" named file, giving
me a monthly backup.
So, if needed I can recover to some point in the past month, and to a
specific point in the past week. And no backup is complete until you've
proven that you CAN recover - I've had that need once or twice over the
past year.
That is sufficient for my recovery needs.... This is all in addition to
the natural backups I get by utilizing Git and BitBucket for my dev
projects.
Shawn
On 14-04-25 02:21 PM, Joe S wrote:
I'm using this on a home computer. I have used rsync in the
past. I was looking into what else was out there or if there was
something better. I've heard of snap-shots, but don't really
know what that is about or if that is a good idea. I want to
backup my /home and config files in / that I would need if I had
to reinstall. Do these programs keep track of all the meta data
like ctimes etc?
Thanks
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:38:32 -0600
caziz <ca...@cuug.ab.ca> wrote:
For my needs, rsync commands in a script is fine.
For both backup and limited archive. rsnapshot too old
school? (Please God let that file I just found out I
accidentally munched last month be copied somewhere)
On 14-04-24 12:02 PM, Gustin Johnson wrote:
I have used rdiff-backup in a cronjob for years. It keeps
date based archives and is space efficient (uses the rsync
algorithm).
For Windows machines I usually use the built in backup
utility on recent versions to save to a samba share on a
Linux box that I then archive again via rdiff-backup.
What the data size is, what the OS is, and the budget, would
help us to give more specific answers.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Richard Carter
<carter.r....@gmail.com <mailto:carter.r....@gmail.com>>
wrote:
I've had good success with Back In Time.
Robin
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Mel Walters
<melwalt...@telus.net <mailto:melwalt...@telus.net>> wrote:
On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 19:35 -0600, Joe S wrote:
> I am looking for advice on what is a good
> method/program to backup. I am using this for a
> home computer. Will backup to a separate hard
> drive and some info on a DVD. I have used rsync,
> but am wondering if there are other methods that
> would do this as well or better.
>
> Thanks
>
I can give a somewhat general answer for an average
user.
I have been looking at the GUI lucky-backup that
uses rsync.
Seems to work well as a simple solution if you are
backing up some sub directories off of your /home/yourname
directory. Pay attention to the "Type" category. You might
want to try a test directory to see what happens.
If you do your home directory you could potentially
end up with too much dot file and dot directories data that
could add up big time on a modern Linux workstation
depending on what is installed. But there is a way to select
exclusions with the advanced mode. Do you like that solution?
People usually also want 1/ email address 2/ book
backup and browser
Mel
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