Re: Backup Scripts - can o worms
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 13:10, andy@besy.co.uk wrote:
>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
Uh huh, and what happens if the hardlinked file is destroyed? Just
thought I'd ask...
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