I use rsnapshot and think it is great. I have also used snapback2 which
is a similar program but does not seem to have a very active user base.
Some of the nice features of rsnapshot are:
1. Incremental backups, only modified files take up extra space for each
backup
2. hourly,daily,weekly,monthly backup rotations
3. easy to maintain and modify
4. unlimited number of network clients can be backed up by single server
5. active mailing list if you have any questions
6. uses rsync as backend transport layer, which makes it very speedy
There is one issue that I ran into. If you are going to backup networked
clients with a cron job, rsnapshot does not correctly handle if the
client is off line for an extended amount of time. I wrote a small shell
script to overcome this limitation. In my setup, each client has its own
configuration file in /etc/rsnapshot/ in the format "hostname.conf".
for FILE in /etc/rsnapshot/*; do
HOST=$(basename $FILE | cut -f 1 -d '.')
if $(ssh $HOST true &> /dev/null); then
rsnapshot -c $FILE $RSNAPSHOT_MODE
fi
done
- Casey McGinty
Daniel G. Siegel wrote:
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hello!
im looking for an incremental backup program, which can put my
backups on my external usb-harddisk. there i should find the files
as on my root-harddisk. is there something in arch?
before i used rsnapshot
greetings daniel
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