On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:48:03PM -0600, Alyssa and Chris Gordon & Family wrote: > I have several GB of pictures and I've decided I should probably > invest in an external hard drive so that I can back them up and > hopefully never have to worry about losing any data. But, I have a > lot of files to backup and will be adding to them fairly frequently, > so I'd like to know if anyone has any good backup tools they use. > I'm flexible, but I'd prefer something command line based, ideally > it could even be automated. > > (When I searched for this on the internet I found a ton of different > options and I couldn't decide which one sounded best)
I have a SheevaPlug (http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-22-sheevaplug-dev-kit-us.aspx) to use as a server at home and as it uses Debian I can easily do a Samba and sshd and nfs installation to it, so archiving and moving files between computers is not so hard now. One big plus of having a 'server' instead of an external hdd is that you don't have to have something physically attached to your computer to do backups and you can access your data everywhere. There are tons of ways to mount the shares as you login so it works as if you're dealing with your local files. As it's a mounted location, anything that makes sense to you can be used to do back-up. cp. rsync. drag-n-drop. If you want an automated folder sync/backup you can have a look at this thread: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/11/19/2059221 - one guy suggested Unison and I think that's a great idea. Currently, I have 16Gigs of my pictures stored on my server and it's still working... fine. I have folder named yymmdd for my pictures so I just do a fish:// to my server and drag-n-drop because it would take 1 sec for me to realize what's my last back-up date. Hope it helps, - H.
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