Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 19 April 2010 09:10, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: > Not sure if it's any use to anyone on here, but backuppc (available in the > repositories) is a very nice solution, as it's a perl based with a nice web > interface that allows backup using SMB, rsync over SSH, etc. > > It handles incremental back

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread Paul Morgan-Roach
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:01 AM, mac wrote: > > I can see that in an office, with a lot of data, having hourly, daily, > weekly, etc., snapshots is much more important. > > Not sure if it's any use to anyone on here, but backuppc (available in the repositories) is a very nice solution, as it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread mac
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > The way my script (and I think rsync) works is that what is stored on my > backup location is only a copy of what was last backed up (i.e. last > night). If I wanted to restore a system to how it was say 3 days or one > week ago I don't think you can. Ah, I see. I do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 19/04/10 08:00, mac wrote: > Alan Lord (News) wrote: > >> It isn't perfect - currently it uses rsync but this makes it hard to >> recover from a few days (or weeks) ago. I've been meaning to migrate it >> to rsnapshot but just haven't got round to it yet. > > Would you mind saying a bit more ab

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-19 Thread mac
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > It isn't perfect - currently it uses rsync but this makes it hard to > recover from a few days (or weeks) ago. I've been meaning to migrate it > to rsnapshot but just haven't got round to it yet. Would you mind saying a bit more about the problem with rsync? I've use

[ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

2010-04-18 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 17/04/10 22:55, Rob Beard wrote: > It is pretty good advice taking nightly backups (or at least regular > backups). I tend to backup more now than I did in the past, touch wood > when drives have failed it's not been really critical stuff that I've > lost. I now tend to backup a lot of stuff