Take a look at rsnapshot. It's a script that uses a little-known
feature of rsync to do disk-to-disk backups that are very economical
of space. After the first full backup it does the equivalent of full
backups forever but uses no more space (or bandwidth) than a series
of incrementals would use.
http://www.rsnapshot.org/
In my home, I have two old Apple machines side by side. One is my
main server (mail, web, smba, etc) with two medium sized (100 GB)
disks in a mirror configuration. The other is just the same, but
it's only purpose is to be an rsync server for rsnapshot. I run
rsnapshot every couple of hours to keep the backup server up-to-
date. It takes about 5 minutes to run. If I was truly paranoid, I'd
put the backup server at a friend's house, and keep hers at my house.
Enjoy!
Rick
On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Andres Tello Abrego wrote:
rsync over ssh?
A script + crontab, maybe nothing "fancy" but it works.
What do you want for a "backup tool"?
Nick Jones wrote:
Does a backup solution exist for Yellow Dog that is reliable. Please
don't mention BRU (unreliable), Atempo (not supported), Netvault (not
supported), or other non-supported backup solutions.
I've heard backula is good, but it is open source and for guaranteed
disaster recovery I just find it hard to put faith in it (the
motto is
"it comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers",
ummm doesn't sound too safe :) Joking aside, anybody with good
experiences with recovering a backup when your RAID goes or
something?
I'm guessing most people running YDL run their backups from a
separate
dedicated box with a more common os/architecture (x86 with Linux or
Windows).
Thanks
Nick
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