Note to self: finish reading thread before responding
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:57:50PM -0500, Elliot Peele wrote: > You might also want to look at rdiff-backup. It uses librsync to do its > backups. Looks to be pretty good. > > Elliot > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:37:59PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > > On Thursday 20 February 2003 17:13, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 17:05, Jason Tower wrote: > > > > as long as it's only a couple of gigs, and it's only moving across the > > > > lan, i wouldn't bother with tar/incremental backups unless space on the > > > > backup server is really tight. using the rsync method that jeremy linked > > > > to earlier is probably the best bet, or just copy the files directly if > > > > you're really lazy like me. make a seperate directory for each day of > > > > the week and use a cron job to copy data to the appropriate directory on > > > > the appropriate day. that way if you need to restore a file from three > > > > days ago you can do it in about three seconds. if you have the space for > > > > it save the friday directories and rotate them so you always have three > > > > or four, that way you can go back a month or so if necessary. > > > > > > Just to make sure people noticed -- that "rsback" script that I > > > mentioned (based on the rsync article) does this exact thing -- takes > > > snapshots for each day, allowing you to access previous versions. The > > > nice thing is that it uses hard links for files that haven't changed, so > > > a lot of space is saved. And since rsync is used, files that haven't > > > changed aren't copied, saving time and network bandwidth. It's really > > > very easy to set up. I'm testing this on the TriLUG backup server now. > > > > Thanks. It's another productive day at TriLUG. > > > > > > For even more space savings, look into "rdiff-backup" which only stores > > > deltas (differences) between files, but it does require a special > > > utility to recover the files. > > > > I'm usually hyperventilating by the time I realize I need a backup. I think > > I'll pay the cost of increased storage room.. The rsync feature of copying > > only what's changed should work out very well. > > -- > > Mike M. > > _______________________________________________ > > TriLUG mailing list > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
