I need a good backup program.

[Patrick Asselman]

On 2014-01-24 13:32, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> +1
>>
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> 	I prefer to store my data at home, so I use rsync.  I do two 
>> backups to
>> separate drives and that gives me what I consider to be a reliable,
>> flexible, and easily restorable system.  Here is one link that 
>> describes
>> how to.
>>   https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Full_System_Backup_with_rsync
>>
>> Bob
>>
> besides Clonezilla for emergency use, rsync run by a cron is also how 
> I
> back up my files on a daily basis
>
> rsync -avz /home/USER  "/media/backup_drive_folder/USER"
>
> USER=your login_name
>
> --
> Paul Cartwright
> Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587


Last time i tried to use rsync i ran into some problems.
On a single machine it is easy to run it as root and have it backup all 
user dirs. Backing up to another machine via ssh is not so simple 
because root is not allowed to ssh in from another machine due to 
security reasons. So i ended up making a tarball and copying that to the 
other machine. (Also very annoying if the userid's are not the same on 
both machines).

If anyone knows a fix for that, it would be very welcome.

Patrick Asselman