Per Jessen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
John, I think perhaps you need to consider what you want to backup, when you want to back it up and to where you want to back it up to. Then come back and tell us "I want to back up /etc /home and /root", "I want to do it every day at 0400 in the morning" and "I want to do it to DVDs". I'm sure you'll get some more comprehensive answers with those details.
To prod your imagination, here's what I do:
I do backups to disk. I select fairly carefully what I want to backup. I have a backup server, currently with a 500GB RAID1 array and a smaller 300GB ditto. (for historical reasons). They are both under LVM.
During the night (0000-0700CET) I do daily differential backups of every machine. On Sundays I do full backups. I can't remember what the method is usually called, but it involves rsync and the --link-dest option.
rsnapshot is doing that and is very easy to configure. Internally it also uses rsync. -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) drobic (.) de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org