Re: [clug-talk] Backup

2014-04-25 Thread Joe S
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

Re: [clug-talk] Backup

2014-04-25 Thread Gustin Johnson
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

Re: [clug-talk] Backup

2014-04-25 Thread Shawn Grover
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

Re: [clug-talk] Backup / short term archive

2014-04-25 Thread caziz
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