On 17/04/10 22:55, Rob Beard wrote: <snip /> > It is pretty good advice taking nightly backups (or at least regular > backups). I tend to backup more now than I did in the past, touch wood > when drives have failed it's not been really critical stuff that I've > lost. I now tend to backup a lot of stuff like pictures on to my server > and also onto DVD (although I also do put some stuff on DVD-RAM disc > too) and I'm looking at probably putting some stuff on my Ubuntu One > account just to be safe. :-)
I have a dinky little bash script that backups up all the important machines in our house, every night to another machine - uses WakeOnLan and ssh keys so no login passwords needed. I add 'rsync' and 'halt' to the sudoers file for the machines' backup users so no password is needed to run these commands either). It runs on a low power server that is always on. In the params for each backup job I can specify both the src and dest machines. So in effect I spread the backups across various alternative computers. It sends me an eamil with some information about each backup job so in the morning I know if each backup worked or not. It isn't perfect - currently it uses rsync but this makes it hard to recover from a few days (or weeks) ago. I've been meaning to migrate it to rsnapshot but just haven't got round to it yet. Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
