[nzlug] When back-ups work

[Toby Collett]

We use backuppc at work, but would work equally well for home users (so easy
to get going). backuppc stores to an encrypted disk, once a week I take
backuppc offline and dd that disk to another of the same size, which gets
rotated with another offsite disk. For a while I was rsyncing the backuppc
pool, but the hard links get so slow.

Only down side with backuppc is there is still only one copey of a given
file which does make it vulnerable to systematic errors (i.e. bugs in the
backup system), but hey you cant get perfect.

I also use unison at home for backing up just data files to a USB HD...

Toby

On 06/04/2008, Chris Hodgetts <chris at archnetnz.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 21:00 +1300, David Hawke wrote:
> > > So what are the cool kids doing for home backups these days?
> > >
>
> > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
>
> My Asterisk box died in a similar fashion, backuppc was there, ready to
> restore (the only problem was permissions on files, but hey whats the
> big deal (uid,gid changed for the asterisk user between fresh install
> and old install)
>
> David, how do you do off site backups with backuppc?
> At the moment (dont laugh) backuppc backup's to another drive inside the
> same computer, but there is no off site archive.
>
> Occasionally I will do a archive to DVD using the archive function, but
> thats only when I can be bothered[1], I have an off site storage server
> now, but never really looked into it and just wondered what you do.
>
> PS: Backuppc rocks!!!
>
>
>
>
> [1] I know naughty!! Oh well...
>
>
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