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But +</I>><i> it is also very, very non-end-user-friendly and requires lots of config file +</I>><i> editing to get started. But when you master it, it will save you life at +</I>><i> each step and will do magic with your backups. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If you are thinking about simple backup solution for some common directories +</I>><i> (say, /etc/, /home/, ...), there are drakbackup and draksnapshot in +</I>><i> Mandriva/Mageia. Each has its peculiarities, but they do the job fine in +</I>><i> most cases. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If you want to go deeper and manage your own backups and syncronization, you +</I>><i> cannot escape much from rsync, unison, rsnapshot and tar - and its variants. +</I>><i> There are plenty of alternatives and UIs for each of them. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If you are thinking on hard-disk backup solutions, and system imaging, there +</I>><i> are many options to choose from - ghost4linux, dd+rdiff :), dump/restore, +</I>><i> unirecovery (but this one is still proprietary I think, and is mostly +</I>><i> available for OEMs), and now carbono [1], which is developed by the same +</I>><i> guys (me included, but without much time to play with it unfortunately) who +</I>><i> developed unirecovery application at mstech. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> And finally, if you just want to backup some subset of files in a +</I>><i> space-efficient manner, <A HREF="http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/ungit.html">http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/ungit.html</A> +</I>><i> gives a nice overview about how to use git for that. Basically, it can be +</I>><i> done with the following trivial script: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> #!/bin/sh +</I>><i> for backup in /home/eugeni /etc/ /var/config; do +</I>><i>   pushd $backup +</I>><i>   git add . +</I>><i>   git commit -a -m "Backed up on %d.%m.%y" +</I>><i>   git push server +</I>><i>   popd +</I>><i> done +</I>><i> +</I>><i> (Of course, you must setup initial git infra with 'git init', and setup +</I>><i> remote branches for each of backup'able directories, but I'll skip those +</I>><i> instructions as they are available in any git tutorial - just yell if you +</I>><i> need some help with that). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Besides those tricks, there are also hundreds of other backup applications +</I>><i> and solutions. I tried to describe the most common scenarios, but it all +</I>><i> depends on your needs of course. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> P.S.: Real hackers don't backup configs and applications, they commit their +</I>><i> settings upstream and just reinstall the packages when needed :). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> [1] <A HREF="https://github.com/umago/carbono">https://github.com/umago/carbono</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> Eugeni Dodonov +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://eugeni.dodonov.net/">http://eugeni.dodonov.net/</A> +</I>><i> +</I> + + +-- +A. Kaaber +</PRE> + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="004944.html">[Mageia-discuss] [Ticket #16] Preferred backup program / drakbackup +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="004950.html">[Mageia-discuss] [Ticket #16] Preferred backup program / drakbackup +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#4949">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#4949">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#4949">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#4949">[ 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> |