On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 09:33:00 -0700
Bill Harris bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com wrote:
Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de writes:
There are so many solutions that I can easily spend a week or more to
evaluate and compare them all. You already got a lot of suggestions
for file-based
Hi
May I put in a vote for BackupPC?
+1 for BackupPC
The Pros as I see them are:
* Web based configuration, making it easy to get started with (but you
can also dig into plain-text config files easily enough, too.
* Can backup a machine using rsync, rsyncd, tar-over-ssh or even SMB
On 12/07/2013 10:43 AM, David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote:
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
backup and daily
Hi David,
Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 17:42:27 schrieb David Guntner:
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
backup and
Martin Steigerwald grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hi David,
Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 17:42:27 schrieb David Guntner:
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in
Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de writes:
There are so many solutions that I can easily spend a week or more to
evaluate and compare them all. You already got a lot of suggestions
for file-based approaches.
I must have trashed the start of this thread, so I don't know everything
that has
Try Faronics Deep Freeze.. I think this is the software that you are
looking for... As I'm using it from last several years .. It is helping me
a lot.
On 07/12/2013 07:52 AM, Rob Owens wrote:
- Original Message -
From: David Guntnerda...@guntner.com
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer,
Gary Roach grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
I'm suprised that it took so long for someone to mention backuppc. I've
been using it for some time and the biggest problem is forgetting its
there. I set mine up to backup 3 systems, all debian wheezy and used
rsyncd as the transport agent. You can
I back up 20 or so hosts and have about the same story as Gary. As with any
backup solution, I do spot-check backups on occasion, just to make sure
that in your moment of need, the files are really there. :)
I use the default location of /var/lib/backuppc as my default location for
my file store
On 12/07/13 12:03 AM, David Guntner wrote:
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Bacula. It backs up whatever you want it to however you want it to.
It's not as simple as some, but if you want a comprehensive backup
solution, it's hard to beat. Bacula has some pretty good job definitions
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 05:42:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
backup and daily
Darac Marjal grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
May I put in a vote for BackupPC?
Sure! :-) I'm interested in knowing what's out there, so I can look
them all over and decide which one will best do the job I want it to do.
The Pros as I see them are:
* Web based configuration, making it easy
- Original Message -
From: David Guntner da...@guntner.com
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly
full
backup and
Rob Owens grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
In another post you stated that you wanted to be able to restore an
entire system. Just keep in mind that there are things like /dev,
/proc, and the mbr that you will need to work around. It's not quite
as simple as backing up everything and then
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 08:14 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
mypackagelist
I prefer to backup the working system as it is. To backup data and to
restore software that is available by packages by repositories instead
of restoring it from a backup easily could lead to issues. Perhaps there
are reasons
- Original Message -
From: David Guntner da...@guntner.com
I'll look into the --set-selections thing you mention above; I'm
going
to assume there's a corresponding command that produces
mypackagelist,
:-) so I suppose I could make it part of the backup procedure to make
a
new one
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
You'd only need one new drive, and that's just because your two current
drives are apparently of different sizes. However, you can also create a
RAID 1 array using the smaller drive and part of the larger one. The
rest of the larger drive wouldn't be
Rob Owens grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
- Original Message -
From: David Guntner da...@guntner.com
I'll look into the --set-selections thing you mention above; I'm
going
to assume there's a corresponding command that produces
mypackagelist,
:-) so I suppose I could make it part of
On 12/07/13 12:18 PM, David Guntner wrote:
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
You'd only need one new drive, and that's just because your two current
drives are apparently of different sizes. However, you can also create a
RAID 1 array using the smaller drive and part of the larger one.
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:16 -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
Ralf has a good point about backing up everything possible, just in
case.
But even if you do back up your entire system, there's no harm in
backing up your package list like this -- just in case.
A hyper-paranoid +1 ;).
There's a Wiki about
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 12/07/13 12:18 PM, David Guntner wrote:
My particular issue is that while I have a second drive for backups
already installed in the Windows machine, I don't for the Linux machine.
So when I'm ready to start this, I'm going to have to buy the drive.
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
There's a Wiki about what to consider for the most safe backup:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law
I used to read a lot of Larry Niven, so I'm well versed with the concept
of Finagle's Law (and yes, I know it was John Campbell Jr who
On 12/07/13 01:09 PM, David Guntner wrote:
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 12/07/13 12:18 PM, David Guntner wrote:
My particular issue is that while I have a second drive for backups
already installed in the Windows machine, I don't for the Linux machine.
So when I'm ready to start
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 10:16 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
There's a Wiki about what to consider for the most safe backup:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law
I used to read a lot of Larry Niven, so I'm well versed with the concept
of
Years back I went to duplicity, which is a highly flexible tool. Months
ago I wrote a perl script to create duplicity backup profiles and set up
cron entries to automate the backup procedure. Also, upon completion, it
sends user a mail with backup summary and attached compressed backup log
file.
On 12/07/13 01:58, Jeff Bauer wrote:
On 07/11/2013 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I
described above?
I know of no such package, though there very well may be one available.
On the other hand, a simple back up script using rsync can
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
backup and daily incremental backups, cleaning up older backup chains
and so on.
My
Hello Dave,
On 12/07/13 02:42, David Guntner wrote:
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
backup and daily incremental
On 07/11/2013 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I
described above?
I know of no such package, though there very well may be one available.
On the other hand, a simple back up script using rsync can do the trick
for you. And example
A Linux even can be backuped by simply coping the files. What you want
are tools like rsync, tar, clonezilla etc. ...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backup+linux
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backup+debian
Regards,
Ralf
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On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 20:58 -0400, Jeff Bauer wrote:
Using that for /home and other directories
You need to make a snapshot of some directories, if you want to backup a
running Linux. I'm not aware about a command doing it for Linux, for
FreeBSD there is a command doing this. I backup a Linux
- Original Message -
From: David Guntner da...@guntner.com
To: Linux Debian Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 7:42 PM
Subject: Backup/Restore software?
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called
Jeff Bauer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 07/11/2013 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I
described above?
I know of no such package, though there very well may be one available.
On the other hand, a simple back up script using
Go Linux grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
I use a combination of rsync for home and specific directories and
refractasnapshot -
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/files/refractasnapshot/ - for
complete system recovery (as well as portable live iso of my system).
If you poke around the refracta
Jerome BENOIT grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 12/07/13 02:42, David Guntner wrote:
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
A Linux even can be backuped by simply coping the files. What you want
are tools like rsync, tar, clonezilla etc. ...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backup+linux
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backup+debian
Thanks, will look into those.
--Dave
smime.p7s
On 11/07/13 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
backup and daily incremental backups,
On Jul 11, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 11/07/13 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a
On 11/07/13 11:29 PM, Glenn English wrote:
On Jul 11, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 11/07/13 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Bacula. It backs up whatever you want it to however you want it to.
It's not as simple as some, but if you want a comprehensive backup
solution, it's hard to beat. Bacula has some pretty good job definitions
set up by default to do, for example, a
Glenn English grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
AMANDA. It does incremental backups (not just mirrors -- so it backs
up only what's necessary, and you can deal with oh why did I edit
*that*? too) in such a way that, in case of a major disaster, you
can recover using tools like tar and dump. I've
add -z to that rsync command and you get your data compression. Also,
it's the source and destination that count here. If your source is backed
up and compressed then all you have to do to effect a restore operation is
use the original destination as the next source and the original source as
Jude DaShiell grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
add -z to that rsync command and you get your data compression. Also,
it's the source and destination that count here. If your source is backed
up and compressed then all you have to do to effect a restore operation is
use the original
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