[clue] small intro and backup question

Will will.sterling at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 14:28:38 MDT 2011


Sorry for the spelling mistakes, I was little to quick with the send
button....

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Will <will.sterling at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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