Re: Backup System
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 09:08:03PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> >>I have 3 computer running on Debian Squeeze. One has an unused hard
> >>drive that I wish to use as a backup disk for all 3 computers. Is there
> >>a simple way to do this that can be completely automated.
>
> I've got rdiff-backup set up on one machine, and backup ninja set up
> on other machines that I want to back up, which I configure with a
> neat little tool called ninjahelper. After some digging, this
> turned out to be both comprehensive and simple. Things like Amanda
> seemed like overkill for a small installation.
>
> Sites for the tools:
> http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/
> https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/show/backupninja
>
> Debian installation is real simple:
>
>
I just plugin my 1.5TB external usb hdd once a week and do
rsync -rvua /home/tony /media/usbdrive/
Of course, that doesn't back up anything I've stuck in /usr/local/bin,
or other stuff, but it gets all my important stuff.
./tony
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all tony, all the time!
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