RE: Backups

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On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 23:45, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, John Dangler wrote:
> 
> > I've heard of this.  Some guys in the NOC at the ISP where I have two
> > servers told me that the _seniors_ use this but that they haven't yet
> > figured out how to (does that make them _juniors_ ?
> >
> > Do you know if rsync can back up to cdr/cdrw, and if so, will it handle
> > multiple volumes?
> 
> I believe mondorescue http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ does
> cdrw/dvd-rw backups pretty well.
> 

I know mondorescue does cd/dvd backups to either the device or to an iso
image and easily does multiple volumes.

> I've just tried using rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ which is
> rsync based backup. I like the fact that backups are incremental as
> far as disk usage - but each snapshot is - complete for future
> recovery (unchanged files are preserved with multiple hard links
> across snapshots). However this doesn't do complete system recovery -
> so I sould get mondorescue working.
> 
> I'm hoping for a complete solution with a USB external HDD for storing
> backups (with incremental backups).
> 
> Satish
> 
The images with mondorescue are easily configured to be rescue/restore
images, bootable and easily used to do a complete barebones restore.




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