backup thoughts..

[Rick Stevens]

On 01/09/2014 06:52 AM, fedora issued this missive:
> just certain directories, which may end up in rsyncing the entire drive,
> if necessary.

bacula works pretty well. You can define directory trees to back up,
exclude lists, backup type (full, incremental, differential), etc. Takes
a bit of work to set up but functions quite well.

>
> suomi
>
> On 01/09/2014 03:49 PM, bruce wrote:
>> you rsync the entire drive?? or just certain trees?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:40 AM, fedora <fedora at ayni.com> wrote:
>>> rsync with a wrapper script? I do it this way.
>>>
>>> suomi
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/09/2014 03:30 PM, bruce 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...
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts/Comments
>>>>
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