[Dclug] backup/mirror script

[Angelo Bertolli]

Peter Teuben wrote:
> on the topic of backups: last year somebody gave a talk at DCLUG about
> dirvish (see dirvish.org).   I'm kind of interested in using that,
> it seems very attractive to have snapshots of your whole system,
> and use hard links to save space. It also helps rotating backups.
>
> Did anybody follow up on this and tried dirvish. When I looked at it
> last week, I noted their website (the code) hadn't been updated in
> about a year. THat seems a bit worrysome perhaps.
>   

I won't discourage you from looking more into Dirvish, but I did quite a 
bit of looking at different backup solutions a while ago.  Rsync works 
for me because I don't need to keep real backups--I just need to mirror 
my system at select times when I get it to a certain point that I like.  
But if you're interested in looking at other solutions that do backup 
things incrementally, I think the ones I liked the best were:

rdiff-backup:  http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
rsync:  http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
backuppc:  http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/  (particularly good for 
cross-platform network backups)

And then there's bacula, which you would want to use if you want to go 
all the way and store your backups on removable media (volumes).
http://www.bacula.org/

I think I didn't use dirvish because of some of the dependencies or 
something, I don't really remember.

Angelo

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