[Gllug] local backup solution

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:41:28PM +0000, Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm looking for a local backup solution. Every week there will be some 
> new or modified files. I think it would be reasonable to apply 
> incremental backup every Friday and a full backup at the end of the 
> month. Does it sound right to you? I don't think the amount of data will 
> be very high. I'm guessing around 50MB per week.
> At the moment it'll only be a local backup on a CD. We don't have any 
> server yet. We're thinking of automatically creating tar.gz/bz2 packages 
> at the end of the week and burning them on CDs (also automatically - 
> cdrecord?). Obviously, a CD would have to be put into a drive manually.

I have a few backup solutions that I have produced over the years, there
is an emphasis on simple use - one line cron jobs:

	http://www.phcomp.co.uk/Packages.php

BackupToDisk may be closest to what you want, although if you do have
another machine then I would recommend RsyncBackup.

All packaged as RPMs for RedHat/Centos, but tar.gz as well. I'll do .deb
when I get round to it.

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