On Dec 30, 2007 7:48 PM, Kai Ponte <kai@perfectreign.com> wrote:
Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder.
I see that KDAR is no longar maintained so I'd like to move on to something that will be around when opensuse gets louder. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
If your needing a disk to disk solution: I use rdiff-backup for all of my non system backups. And as part of my nightly script I copy several of the more interesting system config files to a /config directory I created and include it in the nightly backup. One nice thing about rdiff-backup is it keeps the primary copy in vanilla form, then it has a series of diffs that allow it to recall older versions. On command line you can tell rdiff-backup how many backup revisions to keep. In my case I have a fair amount of corporate data, so I keep a local copy of the backup on a dedicated internal mirror (500GB I think), plus I send a copy of the backup data offsite. I do not want to have the offsite data unencrypted, so I actually use encfs locally to hold the backup data, then I use rsync from the raw encrypted dirs to my offsite location. (I am using a hosting company for the offsite storage, thus the desire to both transport and store the offsite date encrypted.) When I first set this up,it took about 2 months to fully replicate my offsite copy. I only let rsync run from 1am to 6am each night. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org