On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 04:13:38PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On 06 Oct 11:01, Chris Green wrote:
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 10:39:15AM +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
On 05/10/14 18:12, Chris Green 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.
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Have you looked at Duplicity?
Just as a little question to everyone who is recommending ready made solutions, that's OK and is of interest, but why hasn't anyone actually answered the question I asked: does my simple pseudo-code look correct? :-)
Mostly because, you know, everytime that someone rolls their own, sooner or later they feck it up royally again, then ask another question -
Well I don't *think* I've screwed it up. My simple solution is working well, there have inevitably been a couple of minor hiccoughs but nothing too bad. The most recent one was a power cut (we were told beforehand but I'd forgotten about it) that found a couple of things that needed sorting out on the backup NAS - but proved the error reporting was working! :-)
getting you to use something that's already supported by a larger group of people is *far* more preferable than having to debug your code later on down the line.
I'd be looking at obnam personally, and it is what I use.
Its major weakness for me is the one it admits itself, it's not very good over SFTP. For me some of the most important things about backups are:-
They go to a remote system, if the house burns down the backups aren't lost.
They go to a place that's very difficult to reach (in the computer connection sense) from the system being backed up. So an intruder on my desktop system, even with root access, can't do anything to my backups.