Re: (easy) backups [HALF SOLVED]

2009-11-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: Ideally, a backup tool should run on a separate device and pull data from the devices that are to be backed up in a way that only it has access too. If you want to get into ideals, backups should me made to separate media

Re: (easy) backups [HALF SOLVED]

2009-11-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: Ideally, a backup tool should run on a separate device and pull data from the devices that are to be backed up in a way that only it has access too. If you want to get into

Re: (easy) backups [HALF SOLVED]

2009-11-08 Thread John Abreau
A proper personal backup system should include both disk duplication and archives. JWZ's procedure is good for the disk duplication part, assuming you're only backing up one personal machine. It doesn't obviate the need for an archiving strategy as well. Something like rsnapshot or BackupPC is

Re: (easy) backups [HALF SOLVED]

2009-11-08 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Indeed, I have just such an arrangement with Jim Van Zandt. We exchanged hard drives initially; rsync over ssh now. --DTVZ On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:34 PM, John Abreau j...@blu.org wrote: A proper personal backup system should include both disk duplication and archives. JWZ's procedure is

Re: (easy) backups [HALF SOLVED]

2009-11-07 Thread Alan Johnson
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Everyone knows you should have backups. Still, it can be a bit of a challenge to setup. Well now, it's EASY with Back In Time. website: http://backintime.le-web.org/ Back In Time is a simple