On 09/10/2015 01:40 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do you know of some application to clone a disk with incremental
backup? I know about clonezilla, but, unfortunately, clonezilla does
not have yet differential/incremental backup implemented. (
http://clonezilla.org/ )
Well, sure. Cloning a drive is a totally different thing than doing
backups (which are typically file-based) and I doubt a clone package
will ever have incremental backup capacity.
After all, a clone is a snapshot of the drive at the time the clone was
done. Incremental backups are based on a full backup, then differences
between the last time a backup was done and the current backup.
For incremental backups, you could do something as simple as rsync or
use one of the many backup utilities around (amanda, bacula,
mondorescue, etc.).
Thanks, Rick, for your reply. The idea of a cloning application with
differential / incremental backup is not mine, but inspired on what is
written at the clonezilla site:
"Differential/incremental backup is not implemented yet."
Ah, well then clonezilla's statement is misleading.
At this shop, we use bacula and back up to a big HP storage array.
We also have a TimeMachine server for the Macs, but its storage also
gets saved on the HP array via bacula.
At home I generally use rsync to an external drive for immediate use,
and mondorescue every month for a full-boogie, "reinstall-on-bare-metal"
backup.
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