What backup method(s) do you use?

Benjamin Franz snowhare at nihongo.org
Tue Apr 18 13:34:00 UTC 2006


On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> I would like to know what backup methods do you use for your data. So
> far, I am aware of:
>
> - cp/scp
> - rync
> - rdiff-backup
> - archiving and relocating (tar, gz, bzip2, zip)

An in-house Perl script that uses rsync over ssh along with hardlinking to 
create a set of 8 daily, 5 weekly, 3 monthly and 2 quarterly backups in a 
set of directories that appear as full image backups on a dedicated 
machine while taking about the same disk space as a single full 
backup+diffs. It currently handles about 20 servers with around a terabyte 
of data net. I've been using it for something like 5 years now.

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Benjamin Franz

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