I backup my systems with
Submitted by ajt on Mon 11 Aug 2008
| Nothing |
   21% | 414 votes |
| tar & gzip/bzip2 by hand or home made script |
45% | 878 votes |
| rsnapshot |
7% | 145 votes |
| BackupPC |
8% | 160 votes |
| Amanda |
2% | 48 votes |
| Bacula |
8% | 156 votes |
| Some commercial application |
3% | 67 votes |
| Some really expensive commercial application... |
3% | 65 votes |
| Total 1933 votes |
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For example, whereever I am, I sync my local machine (I have a workstation and a subnotebook which I keep in sync (some dirs only)) with some remote server using Unisons SSH option. This way I never have to carry around some device like USB stick/disk and I cannot just sync my machine but also have a "backup" (I know, no real backup but ...).
I can strongly recommend using Unison with some star topology setup e.g. a remote server, worksation at home and some subnotebook for on the go ...
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My backup program, which I thought was the Linux users' program to have, isn't listed!
I rsync in a very simple function, almost an alias.
All I plug in my usb drive and type "backup" . It updates my entire system flawlessly within a few minutes. It seems much better at handling various files and links than a compression program might be.
P.S. Hello users! Like the site. Hope to be around some.
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I'd recommend having a look at rsnapshot, it's basically rsync plus just enough to make it smart but not enough extra code to make it BackupPC or some other fuller application.
There is even a good article here to get you going: Simple rotated backups with rsnapshot.
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Jimmy
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http://colas.nahaboo.net/software/rsync-incr/
Unlike rsnapshot, which requires setting up a config file, rsync-incr is almost a drop-in replacement for rsync.
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I use a script to periodically rsync everything except for my /home to a spare HDD. Then the script changes /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst to reflect the changed partition names. This way I always have a spare system ready to be booted.
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I'm an rdiff-backup convert now (via backupninja). I don't like the fact that it can be incompatible between versions and restore is a little more painful, as you're required to use rdiff-backup.
I would not consider paying for a backup (except for offsite maybe) solution.
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It's a very useful and easy-to-configure script.
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While I use a bit of tar/bzip2/gzip and rsync here and there, the majority of our backups are done with Bacula (and, I hate to say it, ntbackup where necessary, even if just for the bloody "systemstate" runs).
Although Bacula can seem to have a steep start to the learning curve, it's not really that bad to get started with, although I will be the first to admit that there's so much that you can learn about Bacula, I doubt I'll ever be arrogant enough to claim I'm an expert in it.
One thing I will say though, it's probably not worth trying unless you're responsible for more than 5 odd systems. Or you just think it looks pretty cool, which is how I started off with it ;-)
Cheers.:wq
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2. partimage whole disk
3. burn to DVD and take offsite
4. look at backupPC, which hadn't heard of until this poll (c:
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I use to do nothing which I thought was okay as I didn't have much data to worry about. I then started to use a home made script and burning tar.bz2 files to CD/DVD. Tarballs are slow and awkward, so I started to use rsync to create backup copies on external disks which was faster and easier for near line recovery.
I've since upgraded my systems and found rsnapshot to local file system and external drives to be easy and while not perfect it's good enough for me. So I voted "rsnapshot".
At work we use some expensive HP DataProtector (aka OmniBack) solution which is quite horrible.
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http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/
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http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/
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They've not lost any of my data. They're cheap for the smallish amounts of data that I store there. There have been a few short periods of downtime or apparent "disk full" conditions, but not enough to worry about. They reply fairly promptly to emailed questions, but the answer has normally been "no, we can't do that"; for example I asked about using rsync 3.x's use of extended attributes to record uid and gid, but they won't support it (yet).
Overall, I would recommend them if your requirements are like mine. If you want to store larger amounts of data you might prefer to look elsewhere. I would also probably not recommend them to Windows users (i.e. "friends & family"), as their instructions for doing cron'd rsync over ssh on Windows would be miles over the heads of those users.
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Right now:
- tar + gzip for /var
- rsync for /home and /mp3
- rdiff-backup for /etc
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The server itself holds my important stuff and has a 1.5TB RAID5, so I don't really make backups of that... :)
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