[Cialug] Backup Solutions

[Colin Burnett]

Or rsnapshot which uses rsync.

http://www.rsnapshot.org/

Caveat emptor: I know it by name, not by experience.


Colin

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Josh More
<morej at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
> That should work fine.
>
>  I recommend researching using rsync with linking, and using larger
>  drives than you're backing up.  That way you can have revisions and
>  rotate the drives on a weekly or monthly cycle.
>
>
>
>  -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC
>   morej at alliancetechnologies.net
>   515-245-7701
>
>  >>> Arne Quanbeck <spam at arnequanbeck.com> 04/20/08 3:51 PM >>>
>
>
> Greetings!
>
>  I am setting up a Linux server and looking at backup solutions. I
>  would like to have offsite backups with two hard drives. One drive
>  would be on site in the server, the other would be off site, swapped
>  on a scheduled basis. The simplest solution would seem to be SATA
>  drives in a swappable drive bay. With this solution, the user would
>  not have to work with cables, just swap the drive.
>
>  Has anyone used one of these with Linux recently, and how well did it
>  work?
>
>  If this is not a good option, what would work well? USB/FireWire?
>
>  Thanks
>  Arne Quanbeck
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