Phill Coxon wrote:
It's really about time I installed a decent backup procedure for my
linux box.
What recommendations can people suggest for good backup software?
Key requirements:
* Automated (cron)
* File / directory exclusions
* Create a weekly full backup and then incremental / differential
backups in between.
* Automatically expires backups after a specified period.
* Easy and painless to set up.
I'll be backing up to an external hard drive.
Critical data files I will also back up to DVD.
Dirvish at http://www.dirvish.org looks good.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
pdumpfs is quite good. It uses hardlinks for incremential backups. For a
weekly backup put something like the following into a script in
/etc/cron.weekly:
nice -n 19 pdumpfs --exclude 'spool|log' /home/robert/ --exclude-by-glob
"*.wav" /media/backup/home/ >/media/backup/home/log
2>/media/backup/home/error-log
The only thing you will need to do is remove old backups after some
time. Hardlinks are only available on Unix-partitions. You will still
need to manage the DVDs yourself.
HTH,
Robert
