Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:10:00 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: "David N" <davidn04@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB HD based backup schemes Message-ID: <3FF328B9-041B-4A36-9853-B8E6361EA4F8@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <4d7dd86f0804261338r25e0d028tcaba1dde19c9444b@mail.gmail.com> References: <31702B1B-03EF-4505-8BDF-D82A90C865ED@goldmark.org> <4d7dd86f0804261338r25e0d028tcaba1dde19c9444b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 26, 2008, at 3:38 PM, David N wrote: > We used to use RSnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ to backup to an > external disk, its a great tool that also does incremental via hard > links which is a plus. Just after I posted, I started thinking about rsync. I hadn't known about rsync's hard link feature. So once I saw that, the trail did lead me to rsnapshot. The only thing I don't like about it is the security hole it demands of remote machines to be able to back up to them. > so to recover, you have to reinstall the base OS > and rsync the files back to get it up and running again. I'd be happy with that. > It may have problems locking active files, I've never tested it with > a DB before. I can also take a DB snapshot before running the dump. > But since then, we've moved to bacula. Bacula does look impressive. I'll probably get there some day. If I can deal with the security issue for the remote back-up this will be a perfect solution. If I can't I won't do remote back-up on the machine that is awkward to reach, I'll just have to re-arrange things. Thanks. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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