[TriLUG] Your State of Practice for Backups?

[Matt Pusateri]

On Apr 18, 2009, at 1:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Friday 17 April 2009 04:47:20 pm Ivan Panarusky wrote:
>> My backup plan?
>>
>> tar /home /tmp/backup.tar
>> bzip /tmp/backup.tar
>> mv /tmp/backup.tar.bz2 /mnt/Volume_1
>
> Here's what I've been doing:
>
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200609/200609.htm
>
> STeveT
>

Steve you should look at rsnapshot, it seems it would combine your  
rsync/hardlink steps into one.  Rsnapshot is nice but it's a pull  
model not a push.  I had to trick rsnapshot a bit by putting another  
uid 0 user on some of my boxes that I wanted to do full system  
backups.  I also used keychain with ssh keys, to make life easier.   I  
tried rdiff-backup, but I didn't like my backups being indexed as meta  
data.  I'm not a big fan of backup systems that index the backups as  
meta data or in databases.  I've had too many times that either has  
been corrupted, which prevented restoration.  I like rsnapshot or  
Amanda because the data is able to be restored without the program  
that did the backup.  Amanda didn't used to be able to do disk to disk  
backup, but I believe it can now.  BackupPC seems to be the best  
option if you want one program that can handle multiple platforms.


Matt P.