Creating a server backup on a local drive

On 27/11/2008 2:42 AM, "Bob Cappel" <bobcappel.com> spake thus:

> I'm looking for advice on software or a simple UNIX based solution for
> copying a server backup to a local drive on a regular basis.

rsync and cron spring to mind; cron for the scheduling and rsync for the
copying. The nice thing about rsync is that it compares the source and
target and only copies the changed files. (Of course this is not much use if
the backups are monolithic single files...)

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Nigel Stanger, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.
http://xri.net/=nigel.stanger

On Nov 26, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Nigel Stanger wrote:

> On 27/11/2008 2:42 AM, "Bob Cappel" <bobcappel.com> spake thus:
>
>> I'm looking for advice on software or a simple UNIX based solution
>> for
>> copying a server backup to a local drive on a regular basis.
>
> rsync and cron spring to mind; cron for the scheduling and rsync for
> the
> copying. The nice thing about rsync is that it compares the source and
> target and only copies the changed files. (Of course this is not
> much use if
> the backups are monolithic single files...)

I like using rsnapshot, a perl script that uses rsync and hard links
to create a series of full backups that nevertheless only require
transferring changed files and only require the space for the initial
backup plus each changed file.

http://www.rsnapshot.org/

Rsnapshot doesn't handle the scheduling part, using cron is a good
idea. I've also used OS X's launchd to schedule it but cron is a lot
easier.

Have you ever looked at PresSTORE?

http://www.archiware.com/

This is a robust, fast and efficient, modular backup software that even syncs or backs up (to disk or tape) over http, but still encrypted.

Marcel