On my desktop right now I have an encrypted 3TB Seagate External drive that I use for backups. I have BackInTime installed (similar to TimeMachine on Macs). I have it set up to backup once an hour. It saves all backups in the past two weeks, one backup a week for the last 8 weeks, one backup a month for the past 12 months, and one backup per year forever.
It uses rsync on the backend and It Just Works™. -- Jessie A. Morris 801-210-1526 [email protected] On Monday, February 25, 2013 16:26:03 Alan Evans wrote: > I used to use cron and rsync. > > The --copy-dest --link-dest options allow for some really really > interesting options. > > rsync --copy-dest /path/to/dailybackup server:/ /path/to/fullbackup > rsync --compare-dest /path/to/fullbackup server:/ /path/to/dailybackup > > copy-dest/compare-dest options allow you to compare against a third > location and copy/link to it appropriately. > > So for above the copy dest says copy from the most recent daily and > the source server to /path/to/fullbackup. > The compare-dest then said look at this directory and the source > server and only copy files not in either. If there are deltas it uses > the local compare-dest to source the file. > > The result was a weekly full backup and a daily incremental backup. > > I backed up NetWare servers over 768k links like this for years. It > took FOREVER for the first backups to occur but once I got the first > full done the dailies and subsequent weeklies took < 1-2 hrs. > > After getting the files to disk I put them on tape and I was in a > situation like you where my backups spanned multiple tapes so I copied > each weekly to tape which took 2 days but since I could run it during > the day it didn't matter. Then each subsequent daily went on a single > tape each day. > > I had two tape drives, an LTO-2 for the weeklies and an LTO-1 that I > ran the dailies to. I just used BackupExec to do those one day after > their corresponding cron jobs. The weekly took 2 days to put on tape > but since once rsync was done the files were just sitting there on the > disk it didn't matter. I would pop a tape in Friday, Monday > BackupExec would start copying the fulls to tape. Some time Monday > night it would ask for another tape which I would insert Tuesday. The > full finished Tuesday before I left which meant I could take them off > site. > > HTH > -Alan > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Jessie A. Morris > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bacula also allows for backing up to files or directories. I currently have > > this set up and life is good. I would give a hearty recommendation to > > Bacula. > > -- > > Jessie A. Morris > > 801-210-1526 > > [email protected] > > > > On Monday, February 25, 2013 15:56:23 Tod Hansmann wrote: > >> I'm looking at replacing work's current tape backup system. Currently, > >> this is a poblem where we're using tapes of a certain size, and we're > >> maxing out that size so it's spilling over to two tapes, which is messing > >> up rotations. Getting bigger tapes in this instance requires upgrading the > >> tape system, which is ridiculously expensive. So, disk storage being cheap > >> as all get, and easy to implement (physically anyway), I figured I'd look > >> at that direction. > >> > >> We have Windows servers and a lot more Linux servers to backup bits from. > >> Every piece of software I've looked at sucks, and very few of them want to > >> do DAS targets. DAS would probably make managing the drives for swapping > >> out easier, but that's just my opinion. Not to mention, all the software I > >> have found is also rather expensive for managing the copying of files. I'd > >> pay a few hundred for something, but everything I've found either doesn't > >> do DAS (online is the new thing, unless you have TBs of data to backup and > >> can't do that online) or kills you in all the "agents" licenses they'd > >> need. > >> > >> What have you seen that isn't crap and will backup to a local disk I can > >> then swap out like a tape? Also, Amanda is cool, but I can't seem to find > >> any docs about DAS as a target. The enterprise zmanda does, but Amanda > >> seems fairly limited. I might mess with it if someone has better > >> experience than my VERY limited exposure. > >> > >> (As an aside, seriously, backup software sucks, especially in the restore > >> area. What ever happened to backing up files and then just giving me a > >> dialog to choose what files and what timeslice I wanted to restore them > >> to? Why is that so difficult for backup vendors to get?) > >> > >> Cheers, > >> -Tod Hansmann > >> > >> /* > >> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > >> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > >> Don't fear the penguin. > >> */ > > > > /* > > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > > Don't fear the penguin. > > */ > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
