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.
