On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 04:44, Anne Wilson wrote: > Today's task is to identify the best method for my backup needs. I want to > take a day's work and archive it into existing directories on a server diskA, > having first rsync'd server diskA and server diskB. > > Part one - making a script to create the second generation backup onto diskB - > is not a big problem. What is a bigger problem is what to use for the second > part. Rsync does not seem to be the right tool for this. I don't want all > the older stuff copied back onto the workstation, I just want the new stuff > added to the archive. I'm mainly thinking of a photo archive. > > I'm going to take a look at rdiff-backup, but would be interested to hear of > any other suggestions to follow up. My favorite for on-line backups is 'backuppc' http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/. It keeps a configurable history of daily backups of multiple target machines using compression and hard-linking of duplicates to keep about 10x more than you would expect for the disk space needed and gives you a nice web browser interface to restore or grab copies directly. Since most of the work is done at night you can stick a big hard disk in a Linux desktop machine that you use for other work in the daytime. I don't think there is a handy rpm to install it but once it is set up it will take care of itself. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
