backup thoughts..

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:30 AM, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi.
>
> looking to be able to backup a number of machines running fed (and
> possibly other linux flavors)
>
> I'm considering some sort of agent process, where the owner/user can
> define the dirs that the owner wants backed up. This kind of approach
> would allow us to be able to track when things get backed up, as well
> as what's getting backed up.
>
> The downside of this, we don't want to backup all of the OS tree, but
> at the same time, if a dev has created apps that toss stuff into the
> "OS" tree, it might not get backed up, unless specified...


I use BackuPC at home. It's clientless (uses the rsync on the host) but
it's designed to be very automated. You can't tell it exactly when to
backup, just a time window. You can specify how many full and incrementals
you want to keep, what directories you want to include/exclude, and even do
a tar (with or without compression) archives out to another disk/location.
It is NOT designed for full system backup/restores and because of the
dependence on rsync, it doesn't handle large files that change frequently
as it has to transfer the whole file again. It does do deduplication so
it's generally effective for home directories, especially where there is a
large number of duplicate files between users.

Richard
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