Re: Good backup software for Linux
David E. Fox wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:20:38 -0700
> Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org> wrote:
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>>The VMS backup facility did this correctly -- you took a full backup
>>once a month and incrementals every day (this was back in the days where
>>9 track tape was most common). If you had a disk crash, you did a
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> Back in my old DOS days, I had a Mountain Filesafe 'qic' type drive,
> and my working set was just a tad over 1 tape's length - so I had to
> use two tapes to do the backup. But what I ended up doing was to run
> incremental backups daily, appending each to the end of the second tape
> until I ran out of room, upon which I would do another full backup.
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> My 2 cents - there is some good backup software out there, but if you
> can cobble something together with 'tar' or some other standard tool,
> you might be better off - especially when you have to do a full
> restore. Of course, you have to have enough of the system loaded in
> order to operate the software (i.e., if it's an X based solution, you
> need X running in addition to your backup software). But tar can fit
> on a floppy. Alternatively you might explore backup solutions that
> present themselves on live cd/dvds - that way you only need to boot the
> cd and restore your backups.
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> Just having purchased a DVD writer, I'm tempted to try growisofs as a
> backup tool and just send my backups to rewriteable DVDs as my /home is
> just about the same size as a single-layer DVD. It should be much
> faster than DAT at least on my system, which is what I was using
> previously.
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>>Dave Carrigan
>>Seattle, WA, USA
>>dave@rudedog.org | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680
>>UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL
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If you have the space or a spare disk. I use a mixture of rsync and
rdiff-backup
rsync to get a complete picture of the system then rdiff-backup for
incremental changes. I actually keep a seperate old box with big disks
just for the backup. I like rdiff-backup as you can do such stuff as
restore this file as it was x days ago. Beats having to dig out the
relevant tape and wait for it to restore
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