On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:19:00PM +0000, Mark Ridley wrote:
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
What do others here use to backup data on their machines (if anything!)?
I'm looking for something a bit more friendly (and clever) than just tar or rsync but nowhere near as big and complex as backupbuddy or backupPC. So is there anything 'in between'?
I'd like a GUI that allows me to choose directories that I want backed up and sets up a regular backup of those directories. Ideally it would allow me to have different 'levels' of backup so that, for example, very important stuff like the company accounts database would be copied offsite and frequently and less important stuff (like say /home) would just be copied to a different hard drive, possible less frequently.
I don't want total machine backup, if the machine or a disk expires I'll reinstall, that's only time consuming. All I want to backup is actual data which would be near impossible to rebuild.
If there's nothing ready made I'll just write a script using rsync, it wouldn't be too difficult.
I looked at various things in the past but decided to write a shell script. I backup a list of directories (using tar), gzip it, GPG encrypt, split into 50Mb chunks and upload it to the web space that I get with my ISP.
I run it twice, one every day for mail etc., the other every week for a full backup, including a full MySQL dump.
That could well be what I end up doing, except I can do it using rsync as I have shell access to my ISP.