[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works for you? Thanks in advance for any ideas. I am using dirvish for several years. - Jörg
[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-11-24, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works for you? I set up rsnapshot a few months ago, and so far it seems to be working fine. I found the documentation about how to configure the intervals and schedule the jobs to be a bit confusing, but once the light bulb went on, it's pretty easy. Thanks, this is what I was wondering about. I'll chime in a bit here too. I've used rsnapshot for actual yrs, maybe 3-4. I've needed the occasional buggered up file from the backups and few whole directories over the years. It does not claim any baremetal restore capability... unless its been added. I know there is quite a lot of new functionality that I have not had occasion to delve into. It does not afford a handy slick way of retrieving a backed up file. I mean it is left to your own devices... but since the increments are dated and in hourly, daily, weekly, monthly [...] groupings, its not so hard to find what you need... I'm just saying it is a manual process unless you script something. I probably should investigate new features... since the above may be outdated information. One thing you can be sure of... its highly reliable since it is based on a very robust and well tested rsync and a very robust perl. Also, you will be amazed at how many backups you can have and take so very little space. Of course that last will depend to a good degree how much actual change occurs in your data being backed up. Further, it lends itself to network activity very well. All in all a quite simple to use, highly reliable, network capable, very versatile system.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-11-24, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works for you? I set up rsnapshot a few months ago, and so far it seems to be working fine. I found the documentation about how to configure the intervals and schedule the jobs to be a bit confusing, but once the light bulb went on, it's pretty easy. Thanks, this is what I was wondering about. I'll chime in a bit here too. I've used rsnapshot for actual yrs, maybe 3-4. I've needed the occasional buggered up file from the backups and few whole directories over the years. It does not claim any baremetal restore capability... unless its been added. I know there is quite a lot of new functionality that I have not had occasion to delve into. It does not afford a handy slick way of retrieving a backed up file. I mean it is left to your own devices... but since the increments are dated and in hourly, daily, weekly, monthly [...] groupings, its not so hard to find what you need... I'm just saying it is a manual process unless you script something. I probably should investigate new features... since the above may be outdated information. One thing you can be sure of... its highly reliable since it is based on a very robust and well tested rsync and a very robust perl. Also, you will be amazed at how many backups you can have and take so very little space. Of course that last will depend to a good degree how much actual change occurs in your data being backed up. Further, it lends itself to network activity very well. All in all a quite simple to use, highly reliable, network capable, very versatile system. I noticed that there was no real restore, but as you say you can usually find what you are looking for. I will probably try on an experimental basis. Thanks for all your responses. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot
On 2011-11-25, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I noticed that there was no real restore, Um, it's a regular file sysmte, so you use cp -a to restore. but as you say you can usually find what you are looking for. I will probably try on an experimental basis. -- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-11-24, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works for you? I set up rsnapshot a few months ago, and so far it seems to be working fine. I found the documentation about how to configure the intervals and schedule the jobs to be a bit confusing, but once the light bulb went on, it's pretty easy. Thanks, this is what I was wondering about. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot
On 2011-11-24, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works for you? I set up rsnapshot a few months ago, and so far it seems to be working fine. I found the documentation about how to configure the intervals and schedule the jobs to be a bit confusing, but once the light bulb went on, it's pretty easy. -- Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot
On 2011-11-24, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 19:26 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works for you? I use good ole' rsync, together with a couple of scripts. You've pretty much just described rsnapshot. :) It does the hard link-style incrementals and I can do a near-bare-metal restore. From that. rsync is still maintained afaik. rsnapshot is a Perls script that uses rsync to do hard-link incremental backups. -- Grant
