Re: Preferred Backup Method?
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On 12/04/07 16:01, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
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> less frequent burn to tiny CD-R to fit in the Bank's Safety Deposit Box.
>
> Before I go away anywhere (i.e. out of town), I copy the most important
> of the backup to a 4 GB USB stick.
>
> This means that I have a separate directory called "essential_backup"
> with a symlink in each user's home directory. They are to place a
> symlink of any critical data in that directory. That directory is
> tarred up (following the symlinks) very frequently indeed and propogated
> to the other box immediatly.
>
> The regular stuff is tarred up (tgz) and split to 650 MB size e.g.
> backup.tgz.aa to fit on CD-Rs.
That's good for personal use (I do something similar, but send it
off to an external drive), but not adequate for a server.
> If security of the backups is required (other than physical security of
> the media), then I use openssl to encrypt it with an unencrypted README
> file, with the commands used to encrypt and decrypt (minus the actual
> password), included on each backup media.
How do you do that? (I'd have uses gpg.)
> So, to answer your question re software: tar, gunzip, split, cat (to
> rejoin splits), openssl, K3B, rsync, and mc.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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