-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 07/16/2011 07:41 PM, Eugeni Dodonov wrote:
> If you are thinking about simple backup solution for some common directories > (say, /etc/, /home/, ...), there are drakbackup and draksnapshot in > Mandriva/Mageia. Each has its peculiarities, but they do the job fine in > most cases. > Eugeni, I was using drakbackup in Mandriva for the backups to the server, but it isn't available on Mageia. I was saving the files to a mounted nfs share. Each computer has it's own directory on the share. I was using DAR to archive the backup directories on the server and save them on a removable hard-drive, which was kept at a separate location. This is only for our computers at home, 3, and not a business. I am going to take a closer look at draksnapshot later on. I guess I just looked at the name '*snapshot' and figured it was basically an image of the entire system and not just specific folders and files. I added the requirements below for completeness. My current requirements/preferences for the desktops are as follows: 1) Ability to include only specific directories and subdirectories. 2) Ability to easily exclude specific directories. 3) Saves compressed copies in easy to use archive formats (tar, dar, zip, etc) 4) Ability to do incremental backups 5) Ability to schedule backups 6) Ability to easily get files out of a backup using a livecd and any computer - I should not need a database running to get files - I should not need a full Linux install My current requirements/preferences for the server's backup folders are as follows: 1) Saves compressed copies in easy to use archive formats (tar, dar, zip, etc) 2) Ability to do incremental backups I will probably just continue to use DAR to do the backups from the server to the removable hard-drive. I created a statically linked version of DAR and text-mode only Truecrypt. The external drive is encrypted because it lives off-site. Thank you, Jeff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mageia - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAk4iookACgkQspwAgUSFJCzLAAD/fYYcgciqBYhrvO2l3nMY2x94 ROvzntW6ePbYwL7H0AUBAJeX9Cg4W/J/fC0mWINma8WaOnbFIJ6OJ+BFAH5dh07q =1qe2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
