On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:41:55 -0700 prad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've gone through the threads: > > Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution > remote data backup > > and am contemplating the ideas as they apply to my rather simple > setup - 2 webservers (one does email as well). not too much changes > on them and not a lot of stuff on them either (under 5G combined > including OpenBSD). > > what i've done in the past is just scp the etc and a few other > directories that contain data with the intention of reinstalling > OpenBSD and putting those directories back in (if disaster strikes). > > is this too simplistic and inefficient a solution? > should i be thinking of incremental backups say with dump? > does it make any sense to rsync the entire server drive?
What Bob Beck said is all good stuff. Made me chuckle. This mostly applies to data that is changing on the box ( like e-mail spools ) rather than configs: My favorite solution is rsnapshot in ports. It beats rsync and scp because not only does it allow you to specify what and when to backup, but it uses hard links. What's that got to do with anything? Well it rsyncs everything on the first backup, and only the differences there after. But it makes every backup look like a full backup (every file) because it hard-links the unchanged stuff into the latest backup dir. So you get a complete backup dir every time sans lots of file transfers and space taken up on the backup storage box. Travers
