On 10/1/2005 2:20:06 AM, Chris Purves wrote: >On 01/10/05, Bogdan Calmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Scenario 1: >> - configure the two drives for software RAID >> - weekly backup of unreproducible data (such as pictures) to the network >> (tar or rsync?) > >I don't have any experience with RAID, but I have been using backuppc >for managing backups for over the last year at my company and it works >great. Generally it is set up to use rsync for backing up a linux >machine and then compress the backup files. > >The main benefit for you of backuppc would be that it allows for >multiple snapshots of whatever you back up, hourly if you want. > >I'm sure other programs offer similar functionality. > >-- >Take care, eh. >Chris >
After doing backups to tape for a long time using things lika Amanda, I finally settled on my own approach which actually works decently for me. I have a primary Linux server here at home which does samba, vpn, apache, nfs. I setup a second linux box on some older hardware with a 3ware 2 port SATA controller and 2 250g sata drives. I found a really good resource for doing rsync backups and followed some/most of it one way or the other. http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Thats the overall place I went to read about rsync backups. What I do is simply do cron jobs that backup several directories to the second box including samba shares like documents, mp3s. I also save all my mail folders there. This approach works really well for me. The backup box is configured as a RAID1 array and I exported the ssh keys between them. So I have like 250g total for backups. When I want to go bigger, I'll probably just get a 4 port SATA controller and buy 2 more drives or something. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
