Good stuff! But one catch: I want to set this up for the family to use. TM
gives us automatic backups whenever we connect to the network, so vastly
reduces the chance of data loss.
But I'm also considering backup to the internet .. my Joyent web hosting
service or possibly s3 or gs. Big problem there is that our up speed is
miserable, around 800Kb. It might be that the best upgrade I could make would
be to get a premium broadband acct of some sort. Comcast claims to be
upgrading their broadband.
I'd like to push more of my data to the net anyway. Email is solved: imap.
Website ditto -- Joyent. Important source files are svn on Joyent or Google. I
suppose I could use desktop net disks of various sorts to move a bunch of my
presentations etc to the net.
That was part of my research last week of server-to-server speeds. Wow! I can
easily backup my entire web hosting account to both amazon and google at very
nice speeds indeed.
-- Owen
On Aug 2, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> Duh, good catch! I've filled up the root partition that way before too.
>
> --Doug
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Re: backups, I find rsync to the perfect solution for me. Here's an excerpt
> > from one of my backup scripts:
> >
> > /usr/bin/rsync -vurltD --exclude-from=/home/roberts/.rsync/exclude
> > /home/roberts /mnt/backup >>/home/roberts/backup.log 2>&1
> >
>
> Here's part of mine:
>
> if mount | grep -s $DEST >/dev/null 2>&1
> then
> rsync -ax --delete --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=.gvfs $SRC/
> $DEST/
> else
> echo destination $DEST is not mounted
> fi
>
> first thing the original did was fill the root file system by
> rsync'ing into a mount point with nothing mounted on it.
>
> I'm backing up the root these days, too, because it was such a pain to
> recover the install state two weeks ago. Now the backup is configured
> to replace the laptop drive in the time it takes to swap drives.
>
> You could always take a MacMini and install Ubuntu on it. Anybody
> know in what format TimeMachine stores your stuff?
>
> -- rec --
>
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