On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 05:52:26PM -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > Any recommendations for a backup script? I'm just about to revisit > the one I wrote and thought, "someone has already done this *and* done > a better job of it then me." > > My needs are not that different then most people: hard-links with a > few weeks of archives, key based auth, encrypted and compressed in > transit, simple reporting, and configurable. Oh yeah, I also would > like to stop and resume the jobs and have it pick up where it left > off.
Sounds like rsnapshot[1] would meet your needs pretty well. It uses hard links and keeps a configurable amount of archives. Configuration is dirt simple and you can even configure it to do things like dump your database to a text file so it will be included in the backup. If you use ssh as the transport you can get the key based auth, encrypted and compressed transmission easily. [1] http://www.rsnapshot.org/ -- Byron Clark /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
