Re: Backup Scripts - can o worms

["andy@besy.co.uk" <andy@besy.co.uk>]

Tom Allison wrote:
> Adam Porter wrote:
>
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> > > On Friday 01 April 2005 05:04, Tom Allison wrote:
> > >
> > > > These are the packages I can get from Debian.
> > > > Amanda is not one of them.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thats amazeing to me, and a bit of an enlightenment regarding the 
> > > maintainers of debian.  See <http://www.amanda.org>, its a program 
> > > thats been usable, and yet still in active development for well over 
> > > a decade now.  I'm currently running the 2.4.5b1-20050329 release.
> > > There are, from time to time, packages built for the various 
> > > packaging systems, but the tarball is so easy to build I haven't used 
> > > anythng else now in 7+ years.
> >
> >
> >
> > $ apt-cache search amanda
> > amanda-client - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver 
> > (Client)
> > amanda-common - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Libs)
> > amanda-server - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver 
> > (Server)
> > cdrw-taper - taper replacement for amanda to support backups to CD-RW 
> > or DVD+RW
> > chiark-backup - backup system for small systems and networks
> > flexbackup - Flexible backup tool for small to medium sized installations
> > mtx - controls tape autochangers
>
>
> Yeah.  I missed that.
> I was searching in aptitude for backup.
>
>
> bacula sounds pretty capable but perhaps tricky?  Anything with that 
> many pages to the manual can't be too trivial.
>
> I'm basically trying to find something to back up several machines 
> directories (/etc /home /var/spool/mail) onto one location and to do 
> that efficiently.  The complete daily tarballs of backup-manager is easy 
> to do, but takes up a lot of space.
>
> One of the difficulties I have is that one of the machines is in a DMZ 
> and I guess I'll need a pinhole to my LAN to run most of these 
> applications.

Hi Tom,

I like RSnapshot [http://www.rsnapshot.org/].

It uses hard links to do (very) regular incremental snapshots without 
taking up a lot of disk space.

It uses RSync in order to reduce network load.

It will backup multiple hosts.

Its a snap to setup.

Maybe it is suitable for your purposes, maybe not, but I works well for 
me so I recommend it.

Andy