I have been looking at rsnapshot and rdiff-backup. Would like to
know from people who use these what are the differences, and
things they like about them.
At this moment I am planning to backup /home with
config files. /etc/ /var/ /boot
Is there somethings I should leave out or add?
If I crash wil
Organization, automation, and efficiency are sort of the big differences.
You can do all of that manually with scripts and cron, but generally these
other systems make it easy to do.
I have no idea what you mean by "I think I will wait on btrfs until it is
mainstream for a home computer". You ca
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:50:59 -0600
Gustin Johnson wrote:
> Increasingly I am moving my large data (primarily VM and disk
> images) around with btrfs, since I can can create instant copy
> on write snapshots, and very efficiently transfer all of that
> over a network. See the following ARS articl
I use a Perl application called "BackupPC". It uses rsync/tar/CIFS, but
has a few features that make it stand out for me.
- If multiple clients have the same file only one copy is pulled into the
backup. It doesn't seem like a big deal until users start sharing videos of
cats.
- It has a nice web
If you observe regularly then these mods aren't worth the bother
rsnapshot would give depth on changes w/o dups
after initial full copy, only does complete copies of changed files
DAY=$(date -%u) # day number eg 6 instead of Sat
mv -iv /home/backup/days/$DAY /home/backup/days/$DAY.prev
# the
This has been a great discussion thus far - I've heard about some tools
for the first time here. To contribute back, here is the BASH script I
use for my backup routines. The magic is that it doesn't try to be a
one-stop solution for all scenarios. Instead it expects each scenario
to take ca
rsnapshot "apt-get install rsnapshot"
is a collection of perl scripts that
use rsync and has 3 levels of decimation, arbitrarily named, hourly, daily,
weekly
the intervals are usually activated by cron tasks but can also be run manually
for example,
hourly could be set run every 12 hours and
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
What I do is to wrap rdiff-backup in a bash script. An older version of
what I have in service can be found here:
https://github.com/meganerd/bash_scripts/blob/master/backup/BackupWrapper.sh
I am not sure how rdiff-backup stores time internally, but it does track
changes over time. You can for e
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 n
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 cr
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.
W
I've had good success with Back In Time.
Robin
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Mel Walters 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 h
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
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
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Here is some information that might be of interest to the group.
"Hello
My name is Tim Blackhall and my company Nova Networks is sponsoring a Backup
and Recovery event in Calgary at the downtown Marriott(TELUS Centre) on
Thursday, March 6, 2008 from 8:00am - 12:15pm.
We would like to extend
Found one more:
'sbackup' looks pretty.
http://onlyubuntu.blogspot.com/2007/03/backup-and-restore-ubuntu-system-using.html
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Hi Folk
Hi Folks,
Thanks for your advice. I'll try some of these out and choose the one
that seems to do the best job.
Robin
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I was going to mention keep as well. It is a simple program that sounds
like it will do what you want it to. It can keep multiple backups, and
is a fire and forget solution (set your source and destination
directories, and let it go).
I don't really
The one that comes default with Kubuntu is called "keep".
You might try that. It looks promising!
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Hi Robin,
Another one you can add to the list is Bacula, althougth is network capable it
can be run on a single machine:
http://www.bacula.org/
Or flexbackup, which I used a few years ago and seemed to be OK:
http://www.flexbackup.org/
Have fun, and remember a backup it no use if you can't resto
Instead of using cp, maybe look into rsync. It will allow you to back
up whole directories/drives but only move the changes (after the first
load). So your backup routine becomes much quicker.
Rsync can also connect to a remote box
rsync localpath [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/remotepath
The only
I formatted my external drive to ext3 as the standard VFAT is a disaster. It
truncates large files and ignores maildir entries. Then I built a simple BASH
script using cp to copy the directories I need. I tried DAR in the past and
found it unacceptable due to creating single, very large file lum
Hi Folks
Can anyone recommend a simple backup utility?
I'm running Debian etch (testing) amd64 on a system with an 80GB external HD
but no network, so programs like Amanda or backuppc don't seem suitable. I
want to backup about once a week, but not always at the same time to my
80GB external H
On Thu, June 29, 2006 11:41 am, Brad Camroux wrote:
> Hey,
>
>
> Does anyone have a script for doing monthly backups of maildirs?
> I'd like to put all mail from, say, April, into a folder called
> April06, or something to that effect. Of course this would be
> ideally run as a cron job.
>
> Than
Hey,
Does anyone have a script for doing monthly backups of maildirs?
I'd like to put all mail from, say, April, into a folder called
April06, or something to that effect. Of course this would be
ideally run as a cron job.
Thanks,
Brad
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