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  1. Re:On retention, storage, backup, archiving... by dtperik · · Score: 1 · on Deleting Emails Costs Morgan Stanley $1.45B

    Regarding the backups you want to do, I've been very happy with http://www.rsnapshot.org/. I've come to use this as my own backup, as well as the backup system for 2 organizations I manage systems for (one of which is an investment organization, so is under some of the rules outlayed here).

    - Dan

  2. Uhhh... by lorcha · · Score: 2, Informative · on KDE Switches to Subversion
    I am currently examining the FSFS repository that I use for my personal coding. Let me say this: "I defy you to make any sense out of the gibberish that is your FSFS backend."

    If you have a random corruption, I severely doubt you're going to be jumping into the FSFS repository and tweaking it to fix it.

    My solution: rsnapshot. Because the repository is filesystem-based, all of my backup history combined only takes up the same amount of space as my actual repository (god bless hard links). With BDB, the disk usage for my backups would be insane.

  3. God by lorcha · · Score: 1 · on Computer Crash Reactions Examined
    That's why god invented the following:
    1. RAID
    2. Automated offsite backups
    Use it or lose it.
  4. Re:Hum off topic'ish. by mmurphy000 · · Score: 3, Informative · on Arkeia Network Backup Agent Remote Access
    how do you handle complicated tape library management (ie: tape robots, backup aging, onsite/offsite backups) automatically without having to use software more complicated than the basic Unix command line utilities?

    By not using tape. rsnapshot going to a sufficiently-large RAID array or drive covers your regular backups, including aging. A separate rsnapshot or rsync can do nicely for offsites, pushing the backups to another server. For enterprises, this approach probably is insufficient, but for smaller firms (e.g., ~70 employees, 5 offices), this works well.

  5. My choice for backups: by Megaslow · · Score: 4, Informative · on Backing Up is Hard to Do?

    I use rsnapshot to automate my backups to another host. Works like a dream, providing multiple virtual point in time copies (just like similar functionality from Network Appliance, etc.).

  6. Re:Andrew Tridgell - a free software hero by zulux · · Score: 1 · on Samba 4 Reaches "Susan" Stage

    Look up RSnapshot - it's a great front end to make rsync do incremental backups. Highly recomended - it's works on all the *BSD's too!

  7. Re:There's still a single point of failure by Tet · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Bit Rot Stalks Your Digital Keepsakes
    What if somebody hacks your primary machine and erases your data? This would propagate to your backup server as well.

    The syncs are delayed, so I have an overnight sync to a local disk in my main machine, weekly backups offsite, and 4 weekly backups from that to another offsite machine. Thus I have 28 days in which to spot the deleted data and restore from backup (actually, I don't need to spot it manually -- AIDE tells me when a file disappears from my machine). Eventually, I'll get around to implementing a backup strategy using rsync with hard links to do incremental backups, which we do at work. See rsnapshot. But for home use, what I have is more than sufficient.

  8. Re:Watch out for mistakes by Megaslow · · Score: 5, Informative · on Bit Rot Stalks Your Digital Keepsakes
    Do you run rsync with --delete? If not, how do you deal with moved files? If so, how do you deal with accidental deletion?
    Simple, keep multiple online copies using something like rsnapshot.

    I keep several months worth of point-in-time "copies" of my home dirs, mail, /etc, and other stuff online and available on separate hardware.

  9. Re:Backing up every hour... by Kernkraft400 · · Score: 1 · on A Security Bug In Mozilla - The Human Perspective

    Or you could...

    $ emerge rsnapshot

    (rsnapshot is a filesystem backup utility based on rsync - http://www.rsnapshot.org/)

  10. Re:Much faster by mmurphy000 · · Score: 1 · on Cringely's P2P Backup Idea

    Another variation on the rsync script is rsnapshot, which works quite nicely.

  11. Re:Two ideas by lacerus · · Score: 1 · on What is the Ideal Low-end NAS Solution?

    I run my NAS/Backup server on Fedora because of its nice and easy Software RAID installation interface that lets you mount / on a RAID device from the first boot(I hear this is really a pain on Debian).

    For anybody reading this and wanting to use his custom NAS for backup: you want http://rsnapshot.org/. Period.

  12. Re:Easy these days. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Terabyte Storage Solutions?

    You might also want to take a look at rsnapshot. It implements rsync snapshot backups, and is very easy to set up and administer.

  13. Re:My small company solution by redux · · Score: 1 · on Server Redundancy for a Small Business?
    For an incredible implimentation of the afforementioned Mike Rubel rsync trick, check out rsnapshot. It is perl based, quite robust in the error checking arena, and very configurable. Plus the creator is very open to suggestions and is quick with the updates. Plus, there is even a deb repository:

    deb http://debian.scubaninja.com/apt/ binary/



    -Shane