[clue] small intro and backup question

[Will]

I run rsync to a remote plug computer once a day.  You can use Rsync to do
local backups as well.  but since you are runnign on one disk you may wantt
to think about using software RAID or LVM to mirror your drives.

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Nic Young <nryoung at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been lurking the mailing list and irc for about 6 months now and I
> have sadly not been able to make a meeting. I just wanted to do a small
> intro about myself and ask a question about backups on home servers.
>
> I am currently a junior at UCD full time studying Computer Science. I also
> work almost full time as a jr. sysadmin at a environmental testing company.
> I mostly administer Windows servers, but I was able to successfully convince
> my boss to move from Spiceworks (*shudder*) to Nagios on CentOS for system
> monitoring. I was able to install and configure Nagios here at work and I am
> always looking for new ways to introduce Linux in to my work environment.
>
> Now to my question:
>
> I have recently set up a home server running CentOS 6.0 . I have set up
> vsftpd, apache, and samba. This server is my primary server for storing all
> of my data. I have all of my data on a 1TB hd and I have recently acquired
> another 1TB hd. What is the best method of backing up my data to the other
> hard drive? I have looked at rsync, BackupPC and Amanda and I am frankly
> confused as to which would be best to suite my needs. Also do you guys do
> full bi-weekly backups or daily incremental or something else?
>
> I appreciate your time in reading this and I look forwarding to meeting
> some of you in the near future. Thanks!
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Nic Young
>
>
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