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Linux Backups Made Easy

Posted by michael on from the no-more-tapes dept.

mfago writes "A colleague of mine has written a great tutorial on how to use rsync to create automatic "snapshot-style" backups. Nothing is required except for a simple script, although it is thus not necessarily suitable for data-center applications. Please try to be gentle on his server: it is the $80 computer that he mentions in the tutorial. Perhaps try the Google cache." An excellent article answering a frequently asked question.

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  1. thank you... by cmckay · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...for posting a link to the Google cache in the story description on the main page! mfago, you are a genius!

    Perhaps more article submitters (or editors) could add these links more frequenly?

    1. Re:thank you... by Monkeyman334 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No way, I'd rather Joe Blow's server go down than waste google's bandwidth. Google doesn't have any ads on their cache pages. Slashdot should setup their own caching, or pay for a caching service, if they want to link it from the main page.

    2. Re:thank you... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Are you serious? Crush some guys server rather than using the publically available Google copy, because the Google page DOESN'T HAVE ADS?????? Who pays this guy for his server and bandwidth?? Do you make sure every page you view has ads on it? Are you a marketing exec or something??

      This "ads pay for everything on the internet" mentality is INSANE!!

  2. Works great! by schmutze · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I work with Mike and started using his scripts a while back for my own department. With HD space so cheap these days, it makes sense to have an online backup. Especially for those of us who can't afford a NetApp. It really saves time for restoring those every day user deletes. Way to go Mike!

  3. Re:Bandwidth isn't free, thats what. by NiteHaqr · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But wheres the sense of achievement of getting /.d if we all use the cache - /.ing is a sign that you have raised yourself above trollbait level.

    Its a sign of peer approval.

  4. Re:Because Linus says dump isn't reliable. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If I tell you that I have two pieces of meta data, does that make the 'two' sort of a meta meta data? And if I say that I have one piece of meta meta data, does that make the 'one' meta meta meta data?

    Make it stop!

  5. Re:what's the big deal? by s88 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cuase he doced and shared it; you didn't, thats the big deal.

  6. Re:What about backups to tape ? by Cool+E · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hard drives come out as being much cheeper than tape even in the long run.You don't need removable disks, you just need to have the machine in a different building if possible. A tape library to hold the amount of data that I need to hold would be over 5K and then I would have to buy tapes which are around $100 a peice, that doesn't seem very economical to me being that for less money I can build two 1TB, and yes thats a T for terabyte, backup systems and put them both in separate buildings. That way if one completely fails I still have all of my backups.