linux backup
By ET
I was looking for a good linux back up solution for a long time. Some of the needed features are:
- easy to install and maintain (so that I don’t have to read an hour of documents each time I want to modify the configuration file)
- automatic backup such that cron can be used
- backup rotation so that I can get back files from one day to a few days ago
- less storage needed than keeping multiple copies in each backup directory for each snapshot
- do it on local machine and remote machine a like
This is a case of “Information Overload”, there are so many solutions out there, and it’s very hard to determine in a very short time which solution is the best fit to my needs. Then I decided to write my own script to do the job, and “rsync” seems the best solution. Given the little time I am willing to spend on this issue, the script can do the job but can not do it elegantly. Then I found rsback (RSync BACKup) (or here from sourceforge), it is a great tool to do the job, I’m very happy about it.
