Backup devices

[Neil Jolly]

On May 31, 2002 08:19 pm, Bill Fink wrote:
> On Fri May 31 2002, bronto wrote:
> > I do like the idea of the useable and cheap media, but the low
> > capacity is a turn off.  This will be for a remote server and I don't
> > want to have an administrator standing there swapping disks just to
> > complete a full backup.  Unless you see a way around that, what are
> > the second choices?
>
> If you have a reasonable size network pipe, how about rsync to a disk
> on another machine.  Once the initial backup is made, the subsequent
> incremental deltas might not even be all that large.  Of course take
> proper security precautions like making the server data read only to
> rsync, restrict access to only the backup system, and use an rsync
> password.

I use mondo (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) on all my remote machines. It 
creates bootable iso images which can be burned onto cd, put onto tape, 
rsynced, ftped, etc. I make one system iso, burn it to cd, and create a 
weekly iso of /etc, and a daily iso of /var/www. Then rsync these to a remote 
location. Works great if theres a fire, and all hardware  is destroyed you 
can still be back up in a few ours. Provided you can find a location of 
course ;-).

-- 
Neil Jolly

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