Dave McCammon wrote:
--- Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
I have a similar setup: a FreeBSD file and backup server with a dedicated hard drive that holds all of my backed up data. I mount the hdd read-write at midnight each night, and I have scheduled tasks that run at 1am on 5 Windows boxes that rsync (over an SSH tunnel) specific directories that I want to keep backed up to the FreeBSD box. I also have a local rsync job that runs on the FreeBSD box that backs up various locations in that system. For the Windows boxes, I use the cwrsync package, which is really just rsync with cygwin.I haven't caught all of this thread but I'll share what I do. I use rsync to sync file to a server for backup. 6 FreeBSD and one Win2K which have been set up to rsync at different times in the morning hours. On the Win2k machine, I have cygwin running that I use to rsync the data over every night. I think there is rsync for windows but I liked the command line capabilities that cygwin gives me. All use ssh in the rsync.
So after the night rsync's, I'll have a copy of files
on the backup server's harddrive and will also have a
copy on tape. Tape runs in morning after all servers
have sync'd.
I sort out the directory structure on the backup drive something like this: /[boxname]/[weekly.[0-2]|daily.[0-6]]/[backup_dirs]
As you can tell from the directory structure, I run 7 days of incremental backups, and I also keep 3 weeks of full backups. I have scripts that run at 12:15am to rotate the various directories around so that the incremental backups can work.
I compress the weekly backups via gzip to conserve hard disk space - I use the entirety of the 300gig drive.
At 6:30am, I remount the hdd as a read-only drive. I push around about 20 gigs per night when everything is all said and done, but because this all happens over a local 100mbps network, it isn't that bad.
I don't currently have any provision for providing easy, automated restore functionalities to the backups, and this is only onto a single hdd and not on tape or a raid array or anything, but it is "good enough" for my backup system at home. :-)
-- Alan Gerber
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