[ydl-gen] backup solution

[Rick Thomas]

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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