[Novalug] Amanda users?

[Matt Good]

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 23:43 -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
> 
> > amanda can write to disk w/o the usage of a changer (which can be
> > an expensive unit).  a decent strategy (given cheap disk prices)
> > would be to do a couple of level-0 backups so you have some snapshots
> > of each day.
> >
> 
> I simply can't keep quiet here. Rdiff-backup! Really! It will help!  
> Since it only stores incremental changes, it saves bandwidth, and  
> allows you to store a very large number of increments with very  
> little disk space. If you are thinking of backing up to disk drives,  
> I would highly recommend rdiff-backup instead of amanda. I've tried  
> both routes, and rdiff-backup was much easier to set up and restore  
> from. Of course, if you must use tape drives then yes I would  
> recommend amanda.

Yeah, I agree rdiff-backup is really nice.  I used it through
backupninja[1] which is a nice and simple tool for configuring your
backup process.  It has helper scripts for common things like database,
SVN, or Trac backups which aren't safe to backup live from the
filesystem.  Once it's made a backup of those on the local filesystem it
can use rdiff-backup to store incremental backups on a remote system.

I also just saw Box Backup[2] which looks like it could be good for more
user-oriented rather than server-oriented backups.  I'll have to look
into it more as an option for backing up documents from my personal
machines.

-- Matt Good

[1] http://dev.riseup.net/backupninja/
[2] http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/