From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 31 11:03:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF5C16A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:03:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from cpanel10.gzo.com (69-56-171-54.theplanet.com [69.56.171.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2FC43D5E for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:03:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dany_list@natzo.com) Received: from [12.146.133.135] (helo=natzo.com) by cpanel10.gzo.com with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.24) id 1Ablcj-00055L-Oo; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:03:18 -0600 Message-ID: <3FF31E03.3030805@natzo.com> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:05:39 -0500 From: Dany User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francisco Reyes References: <20031231124856.C48743@zoraida.natserv.net> <3FF31447.2050400@natzo.com> <20031231133300.Q48900@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20031231133300.Q48900@zoraida.natserv.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel10.gzo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - natzo.com cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Backing up programs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:03:44 -0000 Francisco Reyes wrote: >On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Dany wrote: > > > >>On my file server I have 2 drives. >> >> > >I also have two drives on each of my machines. One for backup. >I also keep several days worth of backups in case I corrupt a file. >Overall I think I have the data part of the backup covered properly, >although I plan to backup some directories every few hours instead of >daily. > > > >>- Unison : 2-way synchronization using rsync/ssh, multi platform >>graphical interface. >> >> > >I use unison to backup data from a remote machine to my local machine, > > > >>- rsync : typical rsync that will mirror the source to the destination >> >> > >Why use both unison and rsync? Unison can do the same as rsync. > > Because it's one-way, so no worries about conflicts. I know I'm not supposed to change the destination files but I like to use a one-way backup solution. > > >>- rsync-backup : it's based on rsync but you get the advantage of >>incremental backups so you can restore from a specific date. You can >>also purge the backup by removing old stuff. >> >> > >Will look it up. > > I made two mistakes in my description. First the tool is call rdiff-backup (and not rsync-backup which also exists) : http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/index.html Secondly, for the OS, I also use rdiff-backup and not rsync so I have a fast, space efficient, incremental backup of the OS too ! PS: On the same web page you will also find a link to another tool call duplicity (http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/duplicity.html). You can do remote backup but in that case the image can be stored on a remote FTP server and encrypted with GPG... sweet if you're planning to use the disk space of your ISP for backups! Cheers Dany > > >>A couple of cron jobs take care of the different backups at night. >> >> > >Same thing here, except that I plan to do some dierctories more often (ie >emails). > > > >>I don't know if that answers to your question but I thought that could >>give you some ideas. >> >> > >Didn't really answer what I asked, but all suggestions/feedback/comments >on how other people are doing things are always welcome. It helps to see >other possible solutions to what one is doing. I am a firm believer in >learning from the experience of others if they are willing to dedicate the >time to share their experience with me. :-) > >