On 1/30/24 11:15, Grant Edwards wrote:
I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo
machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of
them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries that drove
that have vanished :/ (presumably during a reinstall or upgrade --
IIRC, it took a fair bit of trial and error to get the crontab entries
figured out).
I believe rsnapshot ran nightly and kept daily snapshots for a week,
weekly snapshots for a month, and monthly snapshots for a couple
years.
Are there other backup solutions that people would like to suggest I
look at to replace rsnapshot? I was happy enough with rsnapshot (when
it was running), but perhaps there's something else I should consider?
--
Grant
I backup, periodically:
- corontab (user, root)
- etc
- hylafax
daily:
- data
It all depend what you want you backup, how large is your data.
For backup standard "rsync" over the network does the job OK
I customized this rsync-bacup script:
https://serverfault.com/questions/271527/explain-this-rsync-script-for-me-linux-backups
# This script does personal backups to a rsync backup server. You will end up
# with a 7 day rotating incremental backup. The incrementals will go
# into subdirectories named after the day of the week, and the current
# full backup goes into a directory called "current"
# tri...@linuxcare.com
