From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmynN-0004FY-Di for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:29:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBFJRSL6011154; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:27:28 GMT Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk (heisenberg.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBFJFoeV005297 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:15:50 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EmyZy-0005Ik-L3 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:15:50 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633D61406160 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:15:49 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:15:50 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups Message-ID: <20051215191550.42ad893b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640512150853w3e222393naaed2d1802f783df@mail.gmail.com> References: <1cc2dc830512150503o789056d5n8bec0a3dbd514356@mail.gmail.com> <7573e9640512150853w3e222393naaed2d1802f783df@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc2 (GTK+ 2.8.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_0L=uYl6ynRSSMiiYBuSe=0R"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 8790d762-b601-4c21-860c-863af983e7fe X-Archives-Hash: c23d39ec7e5bdb85558b8820ad1f2d90 --Sig_0L=uYl6ynRSSMiiYBuSe=0R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:53:27 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big > USB hard drives....but that's what works well for me. I use rdiff-backup, which is ideal for backing up automatically to a hard drive. I run it from cron, hourly on critical directories, daily on the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready for writing to bootable DVDs. It makes restoring individual files very easy, and a completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable. --=20 Neil Bothwick A day without sunshine is like night. --Sig_0L=uYl6ynRSSMiiYBuSe=0R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDocDmum4al0N1GQMRAhaVAKCM/XibfS5BXbM4RlsMSuqolxFZHgCffTz9 XK66KLnWT44n8i/6c7pGtnA= =HUCD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_0L=uYl6ynRSSMiiYBuSe=0R-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list