[Cialug] rdiff-backup reporting

[Tom Pohl]

I've been using BackupPC for just over 2 months and I think it's  
wonderful!
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

For example, one of my volumes with 116GB of data has about 300MB -  
500MB of changes daily.  I do full monthly backups with daily backups  
in between and with 3 full and 58 incrementals it is currently taking  
up about 150GB of disk space.  The really cool part about the system  
is that I can pull up the merged backup on any given day and retrieve  
a specific file through its web interface.

-Tom



On Jul 19, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> During the June LUG meeting, I mentioned a question about rdiff- 
> backup and it seemed a few people were using it...
>
> I have a crontab set to run rdiff-backup nightly. I can't tell if  
> its working or not. I did a manual run and it finished in 20  
> seconds, which implies it didn't have to do much.
>
> Anyone know of some way to look at the rdiff-backup directory and  
> run some type of report to see what happened?
>
> find ./ -mtime -5 -print
>
> returns nothing, which surprises me.
>
> Any suggestions for something that would work as a good nightly  
> backup tool that would allow me to go back and do a restore from a  
> week ago? Needs to be efficient with disk space and be able to  
> ignore certain directories.
>
> -- 
> Matthew Nuzum
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