RE: Backups

[Satish Balay <balay fastmail fm>]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, John Dangler wrote:

> I've heard of this.  Some guys in the NOC at the ISP where I have two
> servers told me that the _seniors_ use this but that they haven't yet
> figured out how to (does that make them _juniors_ ?
>
> Do you know if rsync can back up to cdr/cdrw, and if so, will it handle
> multiple volumes?

I believe mondorescue http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ does
cdrw/dvd-rw backups pretty well.

I've just tried using rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ which is
rsync based backup. I like the fact that backups are incremental as
far as disk usage - but each snapshot is - complete for future
recovery (unchanged files are preserved with multiple hard links
across snapshots). However this doesn't do complete system recovery -
so I sould get mondorescue working.

I'm hoping for a complete solution with a USB external HDD for storing
backups (with incremental backups).

Satish