On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Andrew Errington wrote: > I am running MEPIS 6.5 with a KDE desktop. I am considering running Keep > (the KDE backup thing) to do local time-series backups of my home directory > (to guard against accidental deletions or edits) and then rsync to mirror > everything from /home to an external USB drive periodically. The idea is > that for minor losses I can refer to the local Keep backups, and for > catastrophic failure I can restore from the rsync mirror (which will > include the Keep backups too). Anyone doing anything like this? All I > have (or rather, all I will have) is the laptop and the external HD and I > don't want to lose any data (of course).
I am using rsnapshot for backups. It uses hard links to have multiple generations of your directory tree without wasting too much space. It is a fairly simple programme that wraps around rsync. It's fairly easy to setup things so that it'll keep copies on your external drive (with multiple generations if you want). 24G /Backups/rsnapshot/hourly.0/ 518M /Backups/rsnapshot/hourly.1/ 567M /Backups/rsnapshot/hourly.2/ 589M /Backups/rsnapshot/hourly.3/ 726M /Backups/rsnapshot/daily.0/ 815M /Backups/rsnapshot/daily.1/ 601M /Backups/rsnapshot/daily.2/ 921M /Backups/rsnapshot/daily.3/ 696M /Backups/rsnapshot/daily.4/ 622M /Backups/rsnapshot/daily.5/ 671M /Backups/rsnapshot/daily.6/ 707M /Backups/rsnapshot/weekly.0/ 973M /Backups/rsnapshot/weekly.1/ 1.1G /Backups/rsnapshot/weekly.2/ 3.0G /Backups/rsnapshot/weekly.3/ 1.5G /Backups/rsnapshot/monthly.0/ 684M /Backups/rsnapshot/monthly.1/ 2.3G /Backups/rsnapshot/monthly.2/ 1.5G /Backups/rsnapshot/monthly.3/ 42G total -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.
