Workstation Backup Strategies
Mike
azmr at earthlink.net
Sun Jun 18 18:47:15 UTC 2006
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Joseph Holladay wrote:
> Wow, mondo looks like a great app. It should really be in core or at least
> extras.
>
> Joseph Holladay wrote:
>> What tool is the best for backing up a single workstation onto multiple
>> DVDs. Ideally incrementally, but I would still do new full backups from
>> time to time as DVDs are notoriously unreliable. Many of the backup tools
>> I have found seem to be meant for networked backups of multiple machines to
>> HD or tape. I know I could probably write some kind of script, but I bet a
>> better coder than I has already solved this problem.
Two thumbs up for mondo! The combination of mondo and rsnapshot
(www.rsnapshot.org) has been the best solution for my small time operation
(and simple mind). I run a complete mondo archive once a month manually
and hourly, daily and weekly rsnapshot runs from crontab.
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