On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As promised here are the backup notes from my talk at SLUG on 28 Nov. > > Materials related to this talk are at > http://users.puzzling.org/users/mary/Presentations/SLUG2008/ (including > a version of these notes). > > A note about style: this is a set of recommendations purely based on the > fact that I have both backed my home data up AND recovered it. And > having some working backup regime is better than none. I don't claim > this is the One Best Way, merely One of the Adequate Ways That Isn't > Entirely Maddening. [..snip..]
Hi Mary, Thanks for sharing this with us. I had purchased a 500GB drive with an external SATA connector just for this purpose. I installed Bacula and started configuring it, then left it not-fully-setup and basically the drive had been sitting there for some time, simply because Bacula is awesome but it's a little too much for my needs. I think rdiff-backup is what I want. Just wondering: while I was running rdiff-backup, I noticed a lot of files were backed up that I could either delete or exclude from the next backup. Can I just simply go into my /media/disk and delete them? I guess I should get rid of any incremental files, if they exist. The idea was to backup a windows laptop too so I'll see how I go doing that. There is a native Win32 version of rsync-backup so I'm going to give that a shot. Failing that I'm going to try backing up via samba (using smbmount). Cheers Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
