[Cialug] Backup script, did I miss anything?

Scott Yates Scott at yatesframe.com
Wed Dec 24 18:22:58 CST 2014


I have to agree with Crashplan here as well.  It is not as easy to set up
on headless servers, but once it is done, it does work well and is
inexpensive.

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 6:20 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As Scott pointed out, you're not compressing your mysqldump, if you're
> concerned about space at all just add:
>
> gzip $DESDIR/$MYSQLDBNAME-$TIME.sql 2>&1 >> $LOG
>
> I've started messing with Crashplan, not sure I really love it, but
> features like de-dupe are nice.
>
> -dc
>
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Rob Cook <rdjcook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes it is, but I've used it in the past and while rsnapshot worked it
> also
> > failed on me so I'm a bit soured to it. Secondly, this script works and
> is
> > done, I'd be reinventing the wheel again so to speak. I'm just wanting to
> > have a once over by another set of eyes to make sure I didn't miss
> > anything. Also it's good to think and learn, writing this did both for
> me.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 4:08 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 24 Dec 2014, Rob Cook wrote:
> > >
> > > Why not KISS? rsnapshot is your friend, ..
> > >
> > >         Lee
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