Sounds great. Since you're using rsync, take advantage of the file exclusion options. Personally, I don't backup .iso files. They are easy enough to download again and usually have a short lifetime anyway.
Later, Grant On 7/23/05, Sebastian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Over my short sys admin career I've found few backup packages I like... > and none I'd pay for. As such, I'm bent on creating my own system that is > flexible, scalable, portable (maybe), and robust. > > I've been using a modified version of the "backup to a central backup > server with 7 day incremental" backup script from rsync's "examples" page > for over a year now: > > http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html > > It works great, and is easily augmented with other scripts to backup to > CD, DVD, tape, or whatever. It doesn't offer a restore function, but, > since it stores backups as exact copies of existing files (the ideal > method... IMHO), replacing files is easy. > > The primary problem I've found with this script is that it has to be > modified for each installation (effects a lot of the qualities I'm looking > for in backup software). So... I've started generalizing the script, and > have begun adding features I want... which are: > > - Multi-source, and Multi-destination (including to/from remote hosts via > ssl tunnel) > - Optional Parallelized execution > - Copy referent of symlinks > - Preserve permission, ownership, etc > - Quiet operation (no output to stdout, stderr) > - Error handling > - Notification of errors > - Detailed logging > - Easy modification of scripts > > I'd like to know what everyone else would like in backup software, as when > I'm done I will release it to the community. > > I'm currently scripting in Bash, but will probably release in Perl, and > Python as I need practice in all. > > - Sebastian > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
