Re: Backup/Restore software?
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> From: David Guntner <david@guntner.com>
> To: Linux Debian Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
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> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 7:42 PM
> Subject: Backup/Restore software?
>
> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
> program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
> system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
> backup and daily incremental backups, cleaning up older backup chains
> and so on.
>
> My Linux machine (Debian 6.0.7 at the moment, but planning on updating
> to Wheezy soon), on the other hand, has gone far too long without any
> real backup protection. I'd like to rectify that if I can. :-)
>
> Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I
> described above? I want to be able to set it and forget it so it just
> runs every night on its own and that way I have about a week or two's
> worth of backups to fall back on. I need it to be able to do a full
> restore in case of a disaster as well as being able to restore selected
> files/directories in case of a "oh why did I rm *that*?" moment. :-)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> --Dave
>
I use a combination of rsync for home and specific directories and refractasnapshot - http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/files/refractasnapshot/ - for complete system recovery (as well as portable live iso of my system). If you poke around the refracta directories, you might find other versions of snapshot.
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