Hi Paul,
Thanks for the scripts. I have already started to write my own, but they
have some good ideas and I appreciate the input.
Cheers,
Bernd
On 16/06/15 13:29, Paul de Weerd wrote:
I wrote my own script that uses rsync with --link-dest, which I dubbed
'lnbackup'. First some other script
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:29:55PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote:
| --- /etc/lnbackup.conf ---
| DATESTRING="%Y%m%d"
| STOREPREFIX="/backup/HISTORY/daily"
| BACKUPPREFIX="/backup/machines"
| KEEPCOPIES=190
| KEEPCOPIES=120
| #!/bin/sh
| # lnbackup: create hi
Hi Bernd,
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 07:46:31AM +0100, Bernd Schoeller wrote:
| Hi -
|
| I have got an OpenBSD box, and I would like to create regular full backups
| of that box to a Linux server at a different location.
|
| The main purpose of this backup is to be able to restore the OpenBSD box o
On Mon, 15 Jun 2015, Nick Holland wrote:
On 06/15/15 12:54, Liviu Daia wrote:
The other downside, if you use the --link-dest option, is that
there's always only one copy of each file. A few days ago there was
a post on SO by somebody who used that system, and found out that his
backup dis
On 06/15/15 12:54, Liviu Daia wrote:
> On 15 June 2015, Nick Holland wrote:
> [...]
>> In the first case, an rsync-based backup is probably almost impossible
>> to beat. Combine with the --link-dest option (google for it. the
>> man page is accurate, but you won't probably understand the full
>>
On 15/06/15 13:06, Nick Holland wrote:
My experience with third party differential backup systems wasn't that
it had issues across OSs, but that it had issues across versions of the
software. I consider that a complete failure.
> [...]
Thanks to everybody who has answered. This was very helpfu
On 15 June 2015, Nick Holland wrote:
[...]
> In the first case, an rsync-based backup is probably almost impossible
> to beat. Combine with the --link-dest option (google for it. the
> man page is accurate, but you won't probably understand the full
> implications of this. When you are grinning
On Mon, 15 Jun 2015, Bernd Schoeller wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I have got an OpenBSD box, and I would like to create regular full
> backups of that box to a Linux server at a different location.
>
> The main purpose of this backup is to be able to restore the OpenBSD box
> on a severe hardware failure (HD
On 06/15/15 02:46, Bernd Schoeller wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I have got an OpenBSD box, and I would like to create regular full
> backups of that box to a Linux server at a different location.
>
> The main purpose of this backup is to be able to restore the OpenBSD box
> on a severe hardware failure (H
...on Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 07:46:31AM +0100, Bernd Schoeller wrote:
> There are a number of remote backup systems floating around
> (rdiff-backup, rsnapshot, etc.) and of course there are in-house
> solutions (dump/restore), though I don't know if these are
> interoperable.
restore on Linux c
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 07:46:31AM +0100, Bernd Schoeller wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I have got an OpenBSD box, and I would like to create regular full backups
> of that box to a Linux server at a different location.
>
> The main purpose of this backup is to be able to restore the OpenBSD box on
> a sever
>
> From: Bernd Schoeller
> Sent: Mon Jun 15 08:46:31 CEST 2015
> To:
> Subject: Backup of OpenBSD to Linux box
>
>
> Hi -
>
> I have got an OpenBSD box, and I would like to create regular full
> backups of that box
2015-06-15 8:46 GMT+02:00 Bernd Schoeller :
> Hi -
>
> I have got an OpenBSD box, and I would like to create regular full backups
> of that box to a Linux server at a different location.
>
> The main purpose of this backup is to be able to restore the OpenBSD box on
> a severe hardware failure (HD
Hi -
I have got an OpenBSD box, and I would like to create regular full
backups of that box to a Linux server at a different location.
The main purpose of this backup is to be able to restore the OpenBSD box
on a severe hardware failure (HD corruption, fire, etc.). If possible,
the backup sh
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