[geeks] Backup Schemes?

[David Stipp]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:00:36AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:52:55AM -0400, Robert Brooke Gravitt wrote:
>> So, what's your favorite ways of doing backup across your rescued  
>> systems? Each box to its own tapes, dumping to a backed-up nfs mount,  
>> tar dumps, etc?
>
>http://www.rsnapshot.org over the network to a remote machine, and I 
>dump to DVD-Rs every now and then.

Along these lines, has anyone else looked at BackupPC?
<http://backuppc.sf.net>

I started using it after my last backup drive became a WORN drive -
write once, read never... (Was using a home written, rsnapshot like
script.)

The pooling is a nice feature.  It reminds me of previo / altirus for
unix.  (pooling - hash files, and only store one copy in the pool, even
if many copies exist on systems.  Prevents the nasty rsync backup
problem of when you just move files around.)  It also compresses files
when it puts them into the pool... saves a *lot* of space.

dks

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David Stipp <dstipp at coolhack.net>