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The server gets +</I>><i> backed-up to a removable hard-drive. +</I>><i> +</I> +If you are looking for a big and scalable solution, suitable for any case, +and you have a dedicated server, bacula is certainly the best out there. But +it is also very, very non-end-user-friendly and requires lots of config file +editing to get started. But when you master it, it will save you life at +each step and will do magic with your backups. + +If you are thinking about simple backup solution for some common directories +(say, /etc/, /home/, ...), there are drakbackup and draksnapshot in +Mandriva/Mageia. Each has its peculiarities, but they do the job fine in +most cases. + +If you want to go deeper and manage your own backups and syncronization, you +cannot escape much from rsync, unison, rsnapshot and tar - and its variants. +There are plenty of alternatives and UIs for each of them. + +If you are thinking on hard-disk backup solutions, and system imaging, there +are many options to choose from - ghost4linux, dd+rdiff :), dump/restore, +unirecovery (but this one is still proprietary I think, and is mostly +available for OEMs), and now carbono [1], which is developed by the same +guys (me included, but without much time to play with it unfortunately) who +developed unirecovery application at mstech. + +And finally, if you just want to backup some subset of files in a +space-efficient manner, +<A HREF="http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/ungit.htmlgives">http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/ungit.htmlgives</A> a nice +overview about how to use git for that. Basically, it can be +done with the following trivial script: + +#!/bin/sh +for backup in /home/eugeni /etc/ /var/config; do + pushd $backup + git add . + git commit -a -m "Backed up on %d.%m.%y" + git push server + popd +done + +(Of course, you must setup initial git infra with 'git init', and setup +remote branches for each of backup'able directories, but I'll skip those +instructions as they are available in any git tutorial - just yell if you +need some help with that). + +Besides those tricks, there are also hundreds of other backup applications +and solutions. I tried to describe the most common scenarios, but it all +depends on your needs of course. + +P.S.: Real hackers don't backup configs and applications, they commit their +settings upstream and just reinstall the packages when needed :). + +[1] <A HREF="https://github.com/umago/carbono">https://github.com/umago/carbono</A> + +-- +Eugeni Dodonov +<A HREF="http://eugeni.dodonov.net/">http://eugeni.dodonov.net/</A> +-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-discuss/attachments/20110716/31098ee7/attachment.html> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="004955.html">[Mageia-discuss] [Ticket #16] Preferred backup program / drakbackup +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="004949.html">[Mageia-discuss] [Ticket #16] Preferred backup program / drakbackup +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#4944">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#4944">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#4944">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#4944">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |