just a note on rsync - i've seen the "oops-i-didnt-do-rsync-correctly-and-i-lost-data" movie many times. it's a great tool, with lots of optimizations built in, but it can be tricky. (it was a phd thesis after all.)
i'm into stupid, simple things, like tar. i feel like i'm getting advanced when i use the -z flag to compress it. ;-) over 50% of data loss is due to human error. don't get fancy - use simple, well understood things and save yourself some trouble. Josh Coates http://www.jcoates.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ross Werner Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:59 AM To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: Re: [uug] home backup strategy On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Bryan Murdock wrote: > I recently typed rm in a place where I wished I hadn't, and I started > thinking about how I have no backups at home. I've since done some > reading on that crazy internet thing about different strategies and > automated scripts that are available for backing stuff up, and I've > also read Mike's repeated recommendations to raid, and none of it > sounds really good to me. I also use rsync. I prefer it to tar because it's way easier and faster to retrieve a file that you accidentally fat-fingered into the bit bucket. Just stick something like this: rsync -auvze ssh --delete /my/data/files/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backups/ in your crontab to run nightly. You can set up a passwordless ssh-key tied to a single command too (run "ps" on the server to see what command it's actually running), or more complex ssh-key management tools for the more security-conscious. ~ Ross -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
