Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2008-01-12 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-31 at 13:24 -, Dave Howorth wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 03:26 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: But I believe plain dar is. I found it to slow, though. I wish rsync could do a little compresion... ???

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Smits
On December 30, 2007 04:48:33 pm Kai Ponte wrote: Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder. I see that KDAR is no longar maintained so I'd like to move on to something that will be around when opensuse gets louder. I keep a 500Gb USB drive and use rsync to copy all my data

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-31 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kai Ponte wrote: Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder. I see that KDAR is no longar maintained so I'd like to move on to something that will be around when opensuse gets louder. I currently use a custom bash script that does

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-31 Thread Per Jessen
Kai Ponte wrote: Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder. I do an rsync backup every 24 hours on to a 500Gb RAID array. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - your spam is our business. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-31 Thread Dave Howorth
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 03:26 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: But I believe plain dar is. I found it to slow, though. I wish rsync could do a little compresion... ??? $man rsync ... The rsync remote-update protocol allows rsync to transfer just the differences between two sets of files across the

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-31 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 16:48 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder. At home I just use rsync to update a copy. At work I use dirvish (www.dirvish.org) to make multiple copies. I also use rdiff-backup, which is similar but different :) Cheers, Dave --

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-31 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-31 at 13:24 -, Dave Howorth wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 03:26 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: But I believe plain dar is. I found it to slow, though. I wish rsync could do a little compresion... ??? $man rsync ... The rsync

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 31 December 2007 08:02, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-12-31 at 13:24 -, Dave Howorth wrote: ... $man rsync ... I know that, but that's not what I want. I want compressed storage. Rdiff-backup seems good. I've been using it (via Keep, which I _DO NOT_ recommend) and

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-31 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:48:33 -0800 Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder. I see that KDAR is no longar maintained so I'd like to move on to something that will be around when opensuse gets

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-31 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:51:37 -0500 Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-30-07 19:48]: Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder. pdumpfs

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-31 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-31-07 16:22]: On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:51:37 -0500 Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pdumpfs http://0xcc.net/pdumpfs I'm curious... what's the restore functionality like? direct copy - --

[opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-30 Thread Kai Ponte
Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder. I see that KDAR is no longar maintained so I'd like to move on to something that will be around when opensuse gets louder. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-30-07 19:48]: Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder. pdumpfs http://0xcc.net/pdumpfs Description : pdumpfs is a simple daily backup system similar to Plan9's dumpfs which preserves every daily

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-30 Thread Joe Sloan
Kai Ponte wrote: Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder. I see that KDAR is no longar maintained so I'd like to move on to something that will be around when opensuse gets louder. I use rsync to make nightly backups to a linux-formatted usb drive. Works like a charm. Joe

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-30 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Dec 30, 2007 7:48 PM, Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder. I see that KDAR is no longar maintained so I'd like to move on to something that will be around when opensuse gets louder. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

2007-12-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-12-30 at 16:48 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder. rsync to an external drive on usb, normally upowered. I'm thinking on using rdiff, which is more or less a variation of rsync.