Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I want to back up a modest home system -- about 120GB storage, about
70GB currently in use onto a (brand new) external 300GB USB hard drive.
This should be done in a systematic way so that a modest number of old
(incremental ?) backups are available.
There are a number of applications available to do this, in particular:
amanda
backuppc
bacula
These are all intended for backup from a client to a server. Is there
any reason for the client and the server not to be the same machine? Is
this overkill -- will a little script with rsync or whatever do the job?
There's also
dump
but this seems to be intended mostly for backup to tape. Is this
impression of dump correct?
Thanks - jon
Read this:
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
I'm using his method to back up my server to my PC and my PC to my
server. I have two weeks of backup without using two weeks of file space.
