On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 09:30:45AM +0100, Nev Young wrote:
On 06/10/14 08:59, Chris Green wrote:
On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 09:32:18PM +0100, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
On 5 October 2014 18:12, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
I've been using rsnapshot to do backups for a year or two now but my backup NAS is just about full so I need to move to something with a bigger disk.
Have a look at Dirvish, which uses rsync and has built-in preferences. No need to roll your own. Also a good support mailing list.
Dirvish seems rather like rsnapshot, horribly complicated! :-) It also has a number of deficiencies from my point of view:-
My 2p worth. I use "back in time" I think it can do what you're looking for.
Should be in your s/w repository but if not then here: http://backintime.le-web.org/
That looks more like it. It's written in Python too which (to me) is a 'good thing'. :-)
It's still quite complex though, the configuration file is 60 lines or so.
It strikes me that these things "just grow", looking at the code for "Back in time" for example I see there's loads of code handling file restore. To my mind that's totally unnecessary with snapshot backups, you just navigate to the require file on the required date and there it is.
"Back in time" is interesting though and I may try it out to see if it can be made to fit in with my security paranoia. Thanks.