[wellylug] the eternal question - backups

[William Hamilton]

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.
> 
Another option is get a bunch of your mates together and setup a P2P 
backup scheme.  see http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~emin/source_code/dibs/

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