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[Harald Mueller-Ney <hmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 31, Stan Goodman wrote:

> On Monday 31 March 2008 00:47:20 Sandy Drobic wrote:
> > Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > I would be grateful for advice about backup software appropriate for
> > > my situation, and for remarks people using such utilities, including
> > > what to avoid. I can see that there are several packages available
> > > through YaST, but it would be helpful to know what others think about
> > > them and about relative advantages.
> > >
> > > I have only one Linux system here, so network capability is not
> > > important. I do not have a tape drive, but would be read carefully
> > > any remarks about whether I need one. If not, then it would have to
> > > be something capable of bridging DVDs for a total backup, and 
> > > probably CDs for incremental backup.
> >
> > Use a second hdd and rsnapshot. It is cheap, reliable, effective, will
> > give redundant backups and you can run it as a cronjob, meaning that
> > you won't have to do it manually.
> >
> > The initial setup is rather straight-forward.
>
> What software do you suggest for doing this? That is what is foremost on 
> my mind at this stage.

rsnapshot is a software:  http://www.rsnapshot.org/

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rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local
and remote systems.

Using rsync and hard links, it is possible to keep multiple, full
backups instantly available. The disk space required is just a little
more than the space of one full backup, plus incrementals.

Depending on your configuration, it is quite possible to set up in just
a few minutes. Files can be restored by the users who own them, without
the root user getting involved.

There are no tapes to change, so once it's set up, you may never need to
think about it again.

rsnapshot is written entirely in Perl. It should work on any reasonably
modern UNIX compatible OS, including: Debian, Redhat, Fedora, SuSE,
Gentoo, Slackware, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and even
IRIX.

rsnapshot was originally based on an article called Easy Automated
Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync, by Mike Rubel.
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Depending on your needs this might be a convenient solutions, I wouldn't
call it a proffesional backup solution.
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