On Tuesday 01 July 2014 15:59:09 Thomas Harold did opine And Gene did reply: > On 7/1/2014 4:48 AM, Infoomatic wrote: > >> If you actually want to preserve those increments (as opposed to > >> just keeping an rsync mirror up-to-date), I like rdiff-backup. It > >> handles maildirs well because of the one-message-per-file design. > > > > Second that. It's great tool that keeps an actual sync > > (rsync-based) of the data-directory and the metadata (delta) in a > > seperate directory to restore data from any date. > > > > Alternatively, you might want to take a look at bacula, which was > > faster in most cases (development seems to have stalled, but there > > is a fork I have not had time to take a look at: bareos). However, I > > liked the rdiff-backup way because I can restore files via scp or > > rsync (most of my requests were like "please restore from > > yesterday") or if I want to restore data from a certain date I can > > use rdiff-backup from command line (bacula is much more complex, and > > you need the admin tool to restore files - rdiff-backup works from > > command line locally or via ssh/keyauth) > > I looked at Bacula/Amanda - which are great systems if your focus is > tape or backup to disk. But neither of them had good support for > "backup to disk, rsync to offsite". > > rsnapshot / rdiff-backup are just better at creating backups which are > rsync-friendly over the WAN. Which also means you can easily push the > backups to USB drives without having to wait hours and hours.
Well, I've been using amanda since 1998, and it was fairly mature then, and its always done what I wanted. I do backup to disk, but if I wanted offsite, then copying its backup and index files to an external drive offers bare metal recovery completely up to the date of the last backup the way I do it. As is, I just use a separate disk from the OS's disk as virtual tape. Works a treat. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS
