Backup Application of the Year

jeremy · 12-21-2011, 04:39 PM

What's your preferred tool for backups?

--jeremy

JMJ_coder · 12-28-2011, 05:56 PM

#! /bin/sh

# an simple example of backing up to a usb thumb drive using tar
# this could easily be altered to upload to a server

backup="backup_"`date +'%Y%m%d'`
mkdir /tmp/$backup
cp -r ~/* /tmp/$backup
tar cf /tmp/${backup}.tar /tmp/$backup
mount /mnt/usb
cp /tmp/${backup}.tar /mnt/usb/
umount /mnt/usb

chrisretusn · 12-28-2011, 06:46 PM

Lot of possibilities in the poll. I use a few of then.

rsync
tar
Clonezilla
cpio
rsnapshot
partimage
FSArchiver

Another I am trying out is Redo Backup and Recovery. Very easy to use.

My preferred tool is rsnapshot, it is the main component of my automated backup plan.

sycamorex · 12-29-2011, 05:02 AM

rsync (+tar)

baby · 12-29-2011, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JMJ_coder

#! /bin/sh
cp -r ~/* /tmp/$backup

boy... you lost all your config files and directories starting with a dot :-(

FredGSanford · 12-30-2011, 02:57 AM

fsarchiver
partimage
clonezilla

lpallard · 12-30-2011, 09:37 AM

rsync

rsnapshot for a wrapper application with CRON. But rsync for manual backups.

anticapitalista · 12-30-2011, 12:54 PM

How about adding luckybackup.

jeremy · 12-30-2011, 12:56 PM

luckyBackup has been added.

--jeremy

raju.mopidevi · 12-31-2011, 07:57 AM

tar ! I use it a lot !

EricTRA · 12-31-2011, 08:18 AM

Hi,

Definitely Bacula in my book. Takes a bit of time and adapting setting it up the first time but once it's working doesn't fail.

Kind regards,

Eric

gilead · 12-31-2011, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sycamorex

rsync (+tar)

Same here - my external backups get done with rsync, but I still like to do nightly tar files for stuff that changes often between rsync'ing

JMJ_coder · 12-31-2011, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baby

boy... you lost all your config files and directories starting with a dot :-(

You're absolutely correct that it will not copy any dotfiles or 'hidden' directories. But,

this was a quick and dirty example script - I actually do mine manually (-1 to me for not automating it)
I don't backup anything in . directories because I just don't care about them (who cares about what's in .dbus and I can reset my firefox preferences easily)
all the dotfiles are not my master copies but merely a local copy of the actual stored and backedup version. Actually, come to think about it I've been thinking about whether or not my config files should be version controlled...but that's another issue.

tjcarol · 01-01-2012, 07:07 AM

rsync with tar can't be beat
but I also use back-in-time quite a bit

SecretCode · 01-01-2012, 03:57 PM

To me, clonezilla g4l partimage and the like are in a different category from rsync and tar and so on - disk / partition backup vs file backup. I use rsync and clonezilla the most.