[wellylug] the eternal question - backups

Chris Hodgetts chris at archnetnz.com
Fri May 27 12:49:34 NZST 2005


sorry and more :)

and create an ISO of the file system (Can these be created live?) and 
then copy that over ?

Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> why dont you NFS mount the /home directories from the headless server
> 
> and then just back up them?
> 
> David Antliff wrote:
> 
>>
>> For some time now I have had a home LAN backup system consisting of a 
>> bunch of Perl scripts I wrote, some spare disk space, and SSH. It 
>> works pretty well, but it's not really 'good enough'. Now that HDD 
>> space is so cheap, I can't see the point in fiddling around with which 
>> files/directories are to be backed up - I'd like to just do a weekly 
>> or monthly full backup, and daily incrementals in the meantime.
>>
>> So I started to have a look around. Lets see:
>>
>> rsnapshot
>> rdiff-backup
>> duplicity
>> hdup
>> box-backup
>> dar
>> wrappers around rsync
>> ...
>>
>> the list goes on.
>>
>> Several of these would work quite well from my point of view, but I'd 
>> like to get opinions on these.
>>
>> Here's my setup (roughly):
>>
>> three workstations containing linux installations + user files.
>> one headless server with oodles of disk space.
>> 100mbps LAN.
>>
>> I'd like the workstations to 'push' backups onto the remote headless 
>> server (rsnapshot 'pulls' unfortunately AFAICS) and create 
>> grandfather-father-son incrementals. Encryption of backups is not 
>> important.
>>
>> dar is looking promising - is anyone using this?  rdiff-backup looks 
>> fairly useful too.
>>
> 
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