Something else you want to think about is having some type of offsite
backup in case something happens to your backup server or house.
Options for this include rotating exteral drives to some place else or
uploading to a sever or amazon S3.
S3 is probably the cheapest option which you can setup and not have to
do anything to after that. S3sync (FOSS) and jungle disk ($25) are
two nice tools for working with S3.
On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote:
John Mort wrote:
It looks like finances are finally starting to move toward my being
able to
create a backup server for my home computers over the next few
paychecks,
and I'm looking for input on how you guys do your backups, and any
critiques
on what I intend to do.
I have four computers on my LAN, two Ubuntu laptops, an XP desktop,
and an
XP/Ubuntu dualboot desktop.
I'm thinking of having the backup server boot itself up once a day
via BIOS,
ping each of these computers, then attempt a backup of any
computers that
are on, then power itself off.
With the laptops and the dualboot desktop, I figure rsync would
work (since
that XP instance is only for gaming, I don't really care about
backing it
up). But what would be the best way to back up my wifes XP computer?
I would firmly recommend backuppc. It does all the aging and
rolloff of
backups, space saving with hard linking, and works over rsync, tar, or
smb. Plus, on ubuntu, it's a quick package install.
-Sean
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