Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
Hi - I'm wondering if there is something in the Fedora/Linux world
comparable to the Windows-only Maxtor OneTouch external HD - i.e. a
more or less idiot-proof automatic (incremental) backup system. Time
is tight right now, but I'm getting really paranoid not having my
~100GB Fedora machine backed up. Any recommendations?
Thanks much -
Well, not exactly like the OneTouch solution, but I can tell you what
I do to backup 15 servers every night. I have 1 dedicated machine
that's the backup server. It has a large RAID 5 setup in it for data
storage. All of the servers will run rsync every night and backup their
data to the backup machine. I use a system of hardlinks between backups
which allows the snapshots to take little space (compared to the actual
one) and it allows me to keep anywhere between 2 to 6 weeks worth of
data that way.
Backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) will do all of this
automatically, also compressing the files and finding duplicates across
machines and hardlinking to save additional space - and it has a nice
web interface for management and browsing backups.
By the way, a backuppc wiki is being started at
http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/.
But, for a single machine you might just use an exteral USB drive (or
rotate a couple) with a script that rsync's each filesystem to it.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
