On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Derek Juba wrote:
I'd like to get some suggestions on a backup system for my home PC.
Currently I have two identical drives set up in RAID 1 mirroring, but I'm
looking to change this since it doesn't protect against my accidentally
deleting or screwing up a file.
I was thinking of just setting up a cron job to mirror one drive onto the
other every night, but I'd like to avoid copying all the unchanged files
every time, and it would be nice if I could store multiple revisions, as
space permits.
Does anyone know of some good software to do this? It almost seems like it
could be done with something like subversion, though I don't think you can
delete old revisions from an svn repository very easily.
This may be alittle late, but I can't believe no-one said Bacula! Am I the
only one that uses it on this list?
Derek: Bacula does everything you want, and more. You can even migrate
your backups from one medium onto another seamlessly. Read this:
http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/What_is_Bacula.html
Don't be discouraged by the apparent complexity. Bacula options really are
optional in most cases, and you can go back and read about the advanced
features when/if you need them.
Alexey
