rclone & cloud backup under Slackware

rkelsen · 09-16-2016, 01:24 AM

Hi Guys,

Just putting some feelers out to see what others are doing.

We're a small office (10 computers & a file server) needing a reliable backup system.

I'm thinking of running a minimal Slackware VM (most likely only the A and N series) which runs rclone (in a cron job) to back up to Google Drive (or similar). It doesn't need to be able to do anything else.

Is anyone doing this or anything similar?

What do you guys use?

drgibbon · 09-16-2016, 01:46 AM

Apart from my remote BeagleBone Black (which I backup to with BorgBackup), I use rsync.net, who provide a very well-priced service with which you can use normal UNIX CLI tools. At the moment I am backing up to rsync.net with duplicity, although I think I will eventually change my scripts to use Borg instead.

kikinovak · 09-16-2016, 07:15 AM

Here's my Slackware-based backup solution, which I use for my clients (and for my own office, since I eat my own dog food).

http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/template/backup/

The idea is to use incremental rsync over SSH backups. I found the idea in O'Reilly's "Linux Server Hacks" book, and then made some serious tweaks to adapt it to my needs.

Cheers,

Niki

kjhambrick · 09-16-2016, 07:56 AM

kikinovak --

Thanks for the link !

I am doing something similar for our Dev Systems in Mississippi.

May I ask why do you include the `sleep $DELAY` lines in the backup.sh script ?

Thanks.

-- kjh

kikinovak · 09-16-2016, 12:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kjhambrick

kikinovak --

Thanks for the link !

I am doing something similar for our Dev Systems in Mississippi.

May I ask why do you include the `sleep $DELAY` lines in the backup.sh script ?

Thanks.

-- kjh

So I can watch the script work step by step.