[olug] Backups??

[Matt Anderson]

When last my 'life' was stored on a desktop Linux machine (a few  
years back), I had an external USB drive which I backed up onto  
nightly via cron using rdiff-backup (http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff- 
backup/).  rdiff-backup stores reverse diffs each time it detects a  
change in a file, so not only do you have a current copy of all your  
files backed up, you can revert to any previous version that rdiff- 
backup had a hold of -- kind of like having all files in CVS.

Now, I'm using (a patched version of, as stock OS X 10.4 version is  
broken) rsync to backup my PowerBook onto a firewire drive.  It  
*would* be a cron job, if it wasn't a laptop not normally hooked up  
to the firewire disks.  As it is, I plug in and run a backup when I  
think of it.  I may redeploy rdiff-backup at some point.

--
  Matt Anderson


On Feb 27, 2006, at 8:55 AM, Don Kauffman wrote:

> Since my hard drive failed and I lost most of my "life", I've become
> keenly aware that I need a back up system. So I've got several
> questions.
>
> First of all, I'd like to do an informal poll and find out what people
> are using to back up their personal data with Linux. I figure this  
> will
> be of interest to others as well.
>
> Secondly, I'd like to know if anyone has experience using the USB Hard
> drives as backups to their Linux data and what that experience has  
> been.
> I'd like to know what you had to do to get it working.
>
> Thirdly, I've toyed with the idea of getting an older machine and
> putting a larger hard drive in it to serve as a backup but that seems
> kind of iffy. Has anyone done that?
>
> Thanks in advance for participating in my "informal poll"! Any
> suggestions are welcome!
>
> Don K.
>
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