What's your preferred tool for backups?

--jeremy

Simple scripts based on rsync do the trick!

Normally I would have voted "rsync", but I have a new most used tool.

zbackup. http://zbackup.org/

Why?

* It's so simple and unixy. It's a simple stdin to stdout source or sink.
* It does deduplication on the fly.
* It encrypts.


I like to backup my current work in progess on to a usb pen to take home with me... I don't need to remember or enter the password, just set it up on my work and home pcs, and

tar c --exclude=bld mainline | zbackup --password-file ~/.zbackup backup /media/usbpen/zbackup/backup/working_on_YYY

Now if I lose my usbpen... tough. It's encrypted.

Clonezilla for major monthly, but rsync and tar for nightly.

A combination of tar, gzip, rsync, scp, postgres and perl

Avarage restore time for any file over that last 7 years is less than 15 seconds

+1!

Dirvish and custom "to-tape" scripts. Pity Dirvish isn't on the poll.

rsnapshot, it's part of my automated backup plan.

Depending on need, also in my backup tool chest are Clonezilla, Grsync, FSArchiver and occasionally Redo Backup and Recovery.

There are so many good ones but I think I will support TAR, it does what it needs to do.

I love Clonezilla, Amanda, Bacula.

simply rsync

I like the bsdtar variant of tar. I also like the BSD version of gzip in conjunction with bsdtar although I've made some changes to the code to improve portability and eliminate the internal lzw code and use liblzw instead (in addition to the zlib and xz libraries it already uses). I also use zip and unzip a lot.

Voted for tar, as that is easy to use, would also have liked to vote for rsync, as that is what I use over an ethernet link.

Grsync makes life easy...

dirvish

It doesn't appear that there's been an official Dirvish release in almost a decade.

--jeremy

obnam is my goto tool.