On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 04:27:46PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 04:13:38PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
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.
Not to mention one more fundamental problem with obnam, it doesn't offer any obvious/easy way to automate daily/monthly/yearly backups. The documentation seems basically to expect you to do a backup when you feel like it and then clear some out when there are too many.