rdiff-backup rsnapshot dirvish What did they say about skinning a cat? :) All different means to a similar end.
Saving one's butt as Eric put it so aptly. Rsnapshot has saved mine several times over as well. What's the common theme amongst this is that the era of tape based backups are over. Let's face it. Leveraging your backups on tape may be cheap, but when it's time to restore from them, in your most critical hour, experience tells me they will fail you or at the very least, make it damn hard for you to restore! In this hot, and humid climate, unlike disk based backups you never know if the data you wrote to tape is in fact readable by the time you need it. It's a good thing the cost of hard disks have gone down nowadays, and it's so easy to justify a raid 1 array of 750GB with several external USB hard disks for backup purposes. - ian On 5/3/07, eric rosel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- Gerald Timothy Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 05:40 +0800, jan gestre wrote: > > > i found a rsync backup script that will perform a > 7 day incremental > > backup of the /home directory but the example is > based on a remote > > server,. my scenario is that the /home directory > will be backed up > > using an external hard drive attached to the local > machine. > > I like rdiff-backup. Ian sison likes rsnapshot. > Those are certainly > more feature-full than your backup script. There's > some complexity > with respect to including and excluding directories > to backup. > <snip> I use dirvish for disk-based backups, it's also based on rsync. Been using it for a year now (give or take a few days), it has saved my hide a lot of times during that time. Restoring a single file is as easy as a few taps on the "enter" key (in mc). There are even scripts for automating daily backups and sending reports when it's unable to backup some hosts. More info can be found here: http://www.dirvish.org/ HTH, -eric __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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