[wellylug] the eternal question - backups
David Antliff
dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Fri May 27 13:51:45 NZST 2005
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Richard Wade wrote:
> My favourite solution was Dump & Restore
Thanks, I shall definitely take a look at it.
> My current solution is plain old rsync, running from a cron job, to sync
> selected directories with backup space on a remote share. This share is an
> external, USB2.0, hard disk.
That's more-or-less what I currently do, but it doesn't provide enough
'history' - if I corrupt or delete a file and don't notice for a day or
two, it finds itself on the backup. That's why I am considering
differential or incremental schemes.
> I would stick with something simple, widely used, and well established.
> That way, it'll continue to be supported, it'll not go out of fashion (so
> you don't need to ditch your old backups when you decide to adopt another
> package), and there's a lot of documentation and support out there to
> consult.
That is good advice in general. One advantage of DAR is that it's quite
widely used (forms the heart of several other backup systems) an a fairly
straightforward program (it's like tar, but with catalogues and a few
other bits and pieces). SaraB is just a shell script that uses DAR, and I
have no trouble maintaining that myself if I really had to. It doesn't do
any fancy ssh stuff, but it works fine on an NFS or samba mount.
Thanks,
David.
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