[CoLoCo] Best backup solution

[Dave Vanderploeg]

There is a problem with Ubuntu when geeks have trouble with backups. This
script to run a backup is way too complicated. I certainly don't see how to
convert non-geeks when something that should be simple reaches this level of
complexity.

Personally I use RSYNC, and I have had it scheduled with CRON in the past,
though at the moment I've been doing it manually through GRSYNC. I like
GUI's. I'll be going back to cron shortly. Jim, you live somewhat near your
parents, right? I would set up an external drive at their house an rsync to
that. Off site storage is true security. Did you try TimeVault? Does it use
rsync as its base?

Dave

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:

>
> On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 10:50 -0700, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> > So, how does one do good backups in Linux? I don't want some cryptic
> > cron job. I want a straightforward tool that copies and archives data
> > and allows for easy recovery of either one file or the whole thing.
>
> Write a bash script, make sure its executable, then place it
> in /etc/cron.daily.  You do not have to mess with Cron directly if you
> do not want to.
>
> Example:
>
> I wanted to backup the domain (LDAP) accounts every night in case
> somebody added something stupid.  I wrote a script to slapcat the
> directory into /root/ldap_backups/yyyy-mm-dd-ldap.backup every night.  I
> then wrote a script to clean out old backups (older than 8 weeks).  I
> placed the slapcat script in /etc/cron.daily, and the cleanup script
> in /etc/cron.monthly.
>
> Replace slapcat with say rsync, and you should be able to get similar
> results.
>
> The default behavior on most linux system is to run the cron.xxx folders
> in the 4am time period.  My Ubuntu desktop at work has it set as such:
>
> 17 minutes after the hour run everything in cron.hourly
> 6:25am run everything in cron.daily
> 6:47am on Sunday run everything in cron.weekly
> 6:52am on the 1st of the month, run everything in cron.monthly
>
> Hope this helps
>
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