[clue] small intro and backup question

[Jeremy Slade]

I've really liked dirvish for backing up my home network: 
http://dirvish.org/

It uses rsync and stores the backups as incremental snapshots using hard 
links.

I backup my linux server/workstation and two Windows desktops to an 
external usb HDD (500G) attached to the linux server. The backup runs 
nightly, and I rotate between a pair of HDD's on a monthly basis.

However, this has been a fairly high-touch solution, with pretty 
primitive management tools. After using it for about two years, I am now 
trying out CrashPlan: http://crashplan.com/.

CrashPlan installation was painless, management app seems to work well. 
So far I have 6 systems being backed up to their cloud storage service. 
I like that I can easily backup to off-site and to local systems as 
well. The $120/year cost for unlimited storage seems very reasonable to me.


Regards,
Jeremy


On 10/14/2011 02:27 PM, Will 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
> <mailto: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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