I backup files
Submitted by root
| Hourly |
   1% | 11 votes |
| Daily |
27% | 163 votes |
| Weekly |
12% | 71 votes |
| Monthly |
8% | 52 votes |
| Before upgrades only |
13% | 76 votes |
| Backups ..? |
35% | 206 votes |
| Total 584 votes |
Suggests two ideas for DA.
Poll on backup tools (I use GNU tar for most backups).
(There is an interesting smb backup tool as well if you need to backup Windows boxes).
On our Windows 2003 box we've started to use the (rather badly implemented, and interfaced) snapshot mechanism for simple restores of customer files. Be interested to know if anyone is using XFS to create similar routine snapshots under Debian, assuming they have time and energy to write it up. For all it's faults the Windows shadow copy is very easy to set up on a disk.
We use to do something similar on the NetApps filer... but it grew too long in the tooth, and will be removed this time next week, along with a lot of old and messed up Windows servers.
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I'll accept poll suggestions, but I'll need to have some idea of the available choices. I guess the obvious ones are tar, rsync, amanda .. but what else?
Personally I use tar.gz files 99% of the time, or literal copies on remote systems maintained with rsync.
I do have access to Legato for a lot of machines all backing up centrally, but that's only within the office so it doesn't cope with my personal backups.
Steve
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As for archival, I use rsync for most and tar for the rest.
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I too tend to avoid backup programs though - tar and a simple shell script does the job for me. With SSH keys it's easy enough to send/pull backups to/from remote machines too.
Sam Bashton
Bashton Ltd - Linux Consultancy
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Is there any Debian specific solution? I mean, backup tool that only backup the list of installed .deb and modified configuration files, in order to reduce the amount of data (for personal usage).
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I've also used amanda a lot. These days it's not even so dependent on tape drives.
Then there's of course version control and other stashes of information that are kept safe and in good order depending on their importance.
I really wish the (v)fs was more flexible or plan9 would be easier to use as a backend ;)
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That just takes a few cron jobs.
First, to create the list of installed packages we add to /etc/crontab:
07 1 * * * root dpkg -l > /root/.installed_packages
Second, configure rsnapshot to backup the following directories:
- /etc/
- /usr/local/etc
- /root/
- /home/
- (and any others you want)
Third, add cron jobs for rsnapshot.
15 1 * * * root rsnapshot daily 20 1 * * 1 root rsnapshot weekly 25 1 1 * * root rsnapshot monthly
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Then we can suggest new polls and reply to questions.
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blog comments have been something I've been working on for some time now. Hopefully it will arrive soon.
I need to have time to write the code and test it properly, it's a bigger job than you might think, assuming you've looked at the code.
Every new article I post, and other work I have to do, slows down the process of working on the code. But you can follow my comments on what I'm doing with the site via my weblog entries.
Right now though you can suggest polls via the create article link - or mail me direct.
Steve
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Upon rebuilding, regular backups to a safe location are going in early. :)
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