[olug] Backups??

[Hurley Rod]

I use TSM Tivoli Storage Manager.  Not open source, but very kind to
AIX, Linux, Unix, Windoze, MAC, etc.  You can even use it with removable
drives as well.  IBM offers it and as I said, not free, but I think well
worth the price. 

Rod Hurley 

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Matt Anderson
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 4:41 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Backups??

When last my 'life' was stored on a desktop Linux machine (a few  
years back), I had an external USB drive which I backed up onto  
nightly via cron using rdiff-backup (http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff- 
backup/).  rdiff-backup stores reverse diffs each time it detects a  
change in a file, so not only do you have a current copy of all your  
files backed up, you can revert to any previous version that rdiff- 
backup had a hold of -- kind of like having all files in CVS.

Now, I'm using (a patched version of, as stock OS X 10.4 version is  
broken) rsync to backup my PowerBook onto a firewire drive.  It  
*would* be a cron job, if it wasn't a laptop not normally hooked up  
to the firewire disks.  As it is, I plug in and run a backup when I  
think of it.  I may redeploy rdiff-backup at some point.

--
  Matt Anderson


On Feb 27, 2006, at 8:55 AM, Don Kauffman wrote:

> Since my hard drive failed and I lost most of my "life", I've become
> keenly aware that I need a back up system. So I've got several
> questions.
>
> First of all, I'd like to do an informal poll and find out what people
> are using to back up their personal data with Linux. I figure this  
> will
> be of interest to others as well.
>
> Secondly, I'd like to know if anyone has experience using the USB Hard
> drives as backups to their Linux data and what that experience has  
> been.
> I'd like to know what you had to do to get it working.
>
> Thirdly, I've toyed with the idea of getting an older machine and
> putting a larger hard drive in it to serve as a backup but that seems
> kind of iffy. Has anyone done that?
>
> Thanks in advance for participating in my "informal poll"! Any
> suggestions are welcome!
>
> Don K.
>
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