On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 07:50:33PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I've not tried other solutions. I worry that the ones folks seem to like > most do more > than I need or want in terms of management. I want my stuff where I can > see it, so > to speak, and where I can use the ancient tools (tar, dd, gzip and so on) > to work with it. > You might take a look at rsnapshot, then. It uses hard links to avoid backing up the same file more than once, but everything ends up in its own directory that you can see and manipulate with standard tools. Backuppc does put everything together where you can see it, but it does so by using its web interface or command line tools that are specific to backuppc. I understand you have a lot of storage space. But the less space your backups take up, the more backups you can have. I keep daily backups for x number of days, weekly backups for y days, yearly backups for z days. All of this for multiple machines. Another benefit of not backing up the same files over and over again is that you can perform backups over the internet to an offsite location, and it doesn't require as much bandwidth. But it is hard to argue against sticking with the tried and true "ancient tools". > I'm a bit ashamed I've never tried (or needed) a system restore before. So > whatever > this problem is, it's probably lurking in all of my backups. I may just > make image > backups of my bootable partitions real quick now, pending resolution of > this difficulty. > Yeah, you gotta test... But for my Linux systems I usually don't worry about backing up the OS. I keep install media handy and if I have a disaster, I reinstall the OS and then restore my data and certain things in /etc. But that is a more manual process than just restoring the whole thing at once. -Rob
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