Re: Backup scripts

2009-04-08 Thread Jessie Morris
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 11:37:14 am Lonnie Olson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Jessie Morris > > wrote: > > What do you guys recommend when it comes to tape backup scripts? I have > > an Exabyte X80 with 10 Mammoth2 drives in it. The tape library holds >

Re: Backup scripts

2009-04-08 Thread Lonnie Olson
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Jessie Morris wrote: > What do you guys recommend when it comes to tape backup scripts? I have an > Exabyte X80 with 10 Mammoth2 drives in it. The tape library holds about 45 > tapes. Best program to automatically change tapes, etc.? You may be able to

Re: Backup scripts

2009-04-08 Thread Bart Whiteley
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Richard Murri wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:03:24 -0600 (MDT) > "Matthew Walker" wrote: > >> >>On Wed, April 8, 2009 8:22 am, Jared Smith wrote: >>> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 18:38 -0600, Byron Clark wrote: Sounds like rsnapshot[1] would meet your needs pretty we

Re: Backup scripts

2009-04-08 Thread Jessie Morris
reasons I've since forgotten). I just thought > I'd throw it out there as another possible solution. > > -Jared > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */

Re: Backup scripts

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Murri
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:03:24 -0600 (MDT) "Matthew Walker" wrote: > >On Wed, April 8, 2009 8:22 am, Jared Smith wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 18:38 -0600, Byron Clark wrote: >>> Sounds like rsnapshot[1] would meet your needs pretty well. >> >> I took a look at rsnapshot a few years back, but ende

Re: Backup scripts

2009-04-08 Thread Matthew Walker
On Wed, April 8, 2009 8:22 am, Jared Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 18:38 -0600, Byron Clark wrote: >> Sounds like rsnapshot[1] would meet your needs pretty well. > > I took a look at rsnapshot a few years back, but ended up choosing > rdiff-backup instead (for reasons I've since forgotten).

Re: Backup scripts

2009-04-08 Thread Jared Smith
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 18:38 -0600, Byron Clark wrote: > Sounds like rsnapshot[1] would meet your needs pretty well. I took a look at rsnapshot a few years back, but ended up choosing rdiff-backup instead (for reasons I've since forgotten). I just thought I'd throw it out there as another possible

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-31 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 31 Mar 2009, at 11:44, Hans Fugal wrote: TimeMachine++ Not sure if there is something similar on Linux. I have used rsync with some success. Too bad time machine doesn't work over the network. Seriously, what were they thinking? Yep, works for me. Quite well. /* PLUG: http://plu

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-31 Thread Jason Hall
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Joel Finlinson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > >> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:44 -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: >> > Too bad time machine doesn't work over the network. Seriously, what were >> > they thinking? >> >> I thought it could if y

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-31 Thread Joel Finlinson
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:44 -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: > > Too bad time machine doesn't work over the network. Seriously, what were > > they thinking? > > I thought it could if you bought special hardware from Apple. Wasn't > that one of the f

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-31 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:44 -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: > Too bad time machine doesn't work over the network. Seriously, what were > they thinking? I thought it could if you bought special hardware from Apple. Wasn't that one of the features of their latest access point or something? -- "XML is lik

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-31 Thread Hans Fugal
Jonathan Duncan wrote: > > On 29 Mar 2009, at 17:52, 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 th

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-31 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 29 Mar 2009, at 17:52, 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 wee

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-30 Thread Marc Christensen
Hans Fugal wrote: > Byron Clark wrote: >> 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." [snip] >>

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-30 Thread Kimball Larsen
On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Stuart Jansen wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 09:07 -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: rsnapshot looks nice. Can anyone comment on using it to back up hosts that are sporadically available, like my laptop? Ideally it would be able to use nmblookup to find the host, but if not

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-30 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 09:07 -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: > rsnapshot looks nice. Can anyone comment on using it to back up hosts > that are sporadically available, like my laptop? Ideally it would be > able to use nmblookup to find the host, but if not I can always set up > some kind of dynamic dns. r

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-30 Thread Hans Fugal
Byron Clark wrote: > 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 differ

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-29 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Byron Clark wrote: > Sounds like rsnapshot[1] would meet your needs pretty well. More then pretty well. It's perfect. Thanks all! Gabe /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin.

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-29 Thread Brandon Stout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Byron Clark wrote: > Sounds like rsnapshot[1] would meet your needs pretty well... > > [1] http://www.rsnapshot.org/ In a very similar discussion I had on SLLUG, Lonnie Olson also recommended rsnapshot. I implemented it in a very short time and it's w

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-29 Thread Byron Clark
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: har

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-29 Thread Kirk Cerny
I have used and liked dirvish, but I dont know if it does everything you want. It does hard links, and we had it using key based scp. You could use a cron job to compress/encrypt the data on the server before it is retrieved. Kirk Cerny On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: >

Backup scripts

2009-03-29 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
All, 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 com