On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 02:11 +0100, Andy Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 13:11 +0300, Alan Holt wrote: > >> My boss doesn't want it =( Don't know what to say.. He is a boss. So > >> that's > >> why I am looking for something else. > > > > Tell him you found this great utility called rsnapshot that does > > everything he wants. Don't tell him it's a wrapper round rsync. > > > > On that topic, another great solution is rdiff-backup. > http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ > > Yes, this is based on rsync, but it has some very nice additions, so > your boss might approve > :: easy to deploy - available in the standard Fedora repo, no need for > a server, just one standard package on each box > :: backup remote servers with a 1 line command (assuming you have SSL > key authentication configured) > :: can easily run through SSL, for example, if you need to backup over > the internet > :: uses rsync as a transport, so it's pretty fast (it only sends > changes over the network) > :: wraps rsync to add extra features, including tracking of > differentials on every backup > :: so your backup filesystem will contain a complete mirror of what > you backed up, not an archive. This means you can easily login to the > backup server and simply browse/copy files direct out of the last > backup (no need to extract individual files, just browse, view, copy, > directly), OR, you can roll a file back to previous dates, such as > "restore this file to how it was 15 days ago" > :: it works great Actually rsnapshot does pretty much all of that as well, though details are different. I use it over an NFS connection to my home NAS (an Iomega box that I can't log into, but that's another story). Rsnapshot uses hard link farms to keep snapshots of the entire backed-up volume, so going back in time is easy with standard Linux commands. And it's also a standard Fedora package. There are some differences between the two (e.g. rdiff-backup actually stores diffs, which rsnapshot doesn't do, but doesn't allow deletion of intermediate snapshots, which rsnapshot does allow) but it's probably six of one and half a dozen of the other for most people. A comparison: http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2008/02/backup-on-linux-rsnapshot-vs-rdiff/ (somewhat old by now but the discussion is updated recently). There's also a GUI for rsnapshot in the Fedora repos: backintime-gnome or backintime-kde. I haven't tried it. Cheers poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
