[gentoo-user] experience with rsnapshot

[gentoo-user] experience with rsnapshot

[covici]

I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems
to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a
nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a
while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works
for you?

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] experience with rsnapshot

[Albert W. Hopkins]

On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 19:26 -0500, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems
> to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like
> a
> nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a
> while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it
> works
> for you? 

I use good ole' rsync, together with a couple of scripts.  It does the
hard link-style incrementals and I can do a near-bare-metal restore.
From that.  rsync is still maintained afaik.

[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-11-24, covici@ccs.covici.com <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:

> I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems
> to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a
> nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a
> while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works
> for you?

I set up rsnapshot a few months ago, and so far it seems to be working
fine.  I found the documentation about how to configure the intervals
and schedule the jobs to be a bit confusing, but once the light bulb
went on, it's pretty easy.

-- 
Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-11-24, Albert W. Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 19:26 -0500, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>> I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems
>> to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like
>> a
>> nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a
>> while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it
>> works
>> for you? 
>
> I use good ole' rsync, together with a couple of scripts.

You've pretty much just described rsnapshot. :)

> It does the hard link-style incrementals and I can do a
> near-bare-metal restore. From that.  rsync is still maintained afaik.

rsnapshot is a Perls script that uses rsync to do hard-link
incremental backups.

-- 
Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

[covici]

Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2011-11-24, covici@ccs.covici.com <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems
> > to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a
> > nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a
> > while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works
> > for you?
> 
> I set up rsnapshot a few months ago, and so far it seems to be working
> fine.  I found the documentation about how to configure the intervals
> and schedule the jobs to be a bit confusing, but once the light bulb
> went on, it's pretty easy.


Thanks, this is what I was wondering about.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

[Harry Putnam]

covici@ccs.covici.com writes:

> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2011-11-24, covici@ccs.covici.com <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems
>> > to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a
>> > nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a
>> > while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works
>> > for you?
>> 
>> I set up rsnapshot a few months ago, and so far it seems to be working
>> fine.  I found the documentation about how to configure the intervals
>> and schedule the jobs to be a bit confusing, but once the light bulb
>> went on, it's pretty easy.
>
>
> Thanks, this is what I was wondering about.

I'll chime in a bit here too.  I've used rsnapshot for actual yrs,
maybe 3-4.  I've needed the occasional buggered up file from the
backups and few whole directories over the years.

It does not claim any baremetal restore capability... unless its been
added.  I know there is quite a lot of new functionality that I have
not had occasion to delve into.

It does not afford a handy slick way of retrieving a backed up file.
I mean it is left to your own devices... but since the increments are
dated and in hourly, daily, weekly, monthly [...] groupings, its not
so hard to find what you need... I'm just saying it is a manual
process unless you script something. 

I probably should investigate new features... since the above may be
outdated information.

One thing you can be sure of... its highly reliable since it is based
on a very robust and well tested rsync and a very robust perl.  Also,
you will be amazed at how many backups you can have and take so very
little space.

Of course that last will depend to a good degree how much actual
change occurs in your data being backed up.

Further, it lends itself to network activity very well.

All in all a quite simple to use, highly reliable, network capable,
very versatile system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

[covici]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:

> covici@ccs.covici.com writes:
> 
> > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2011-11-24, covici@ccs.covici.com <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems
> >> > to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a
> >> > nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a
> >> > while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works
> >> > for you?
> >> 
> >> I set up rsnapshot a few months ago, and so far it seems to be working
> >> fine.  I found the documentation about how to configure the intervals
> >> and schedule the jobs to be a bit confusing, but once the light bulb
> >> went on, it's pretty easy.
> >
> >
> > Thanks, this is what I was wondering about.
> 
> I'll chime in a bit here too.  I've used rsnapshot for actual yrs,
> maybe 3-4.  I've needed the occasional buggered up file from the
> backups and few whole directories over the years.
> 
> It does not claim any baremetal restore capability... unless its been
> added.  I know there is quite a lot of new functionality that I have
> not had occasion to delve into.
> 
> It does not afford a handy slick way of retrieving a backed up file.
> I mean it is left to your own devices... but since the increments are
> dated and in hourly, daily, weekly, monthly [...] groupings, its not
> so hard to find what you need... I'm just saying it is a manual
> process unless you script something. 
> 
> I probably should investigate new features... since the above may be
> outdated information.
> 
> One thing you can be sure of... its highly reliable since it is based
> on a very robust and well tested rsync and a very robust perl.  Also,
> you will be amazed at how many backups you can have and take so very
> little space.
> 
> Of course that last will depend to a good degree how much actual
> change occurs in your data being backed up.
> 
> Further, it lends itself to network activity very well.
> 
> All in all a quite simple to use, highly reliable, network capable,
> very versatile system.
> 

I noticed that there was no real restore, but as you say you can usually
find what you are looking for.  I will probably try on an experimental
basis.

Thanks for all your responses.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-11-25, covici@ccs.covici.com <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:

> I noticed that there was no real restore,

Um, it's a regular file sysmte, so you use "cp -a" to restore.

> but as you say you can usually find what you are looking for.  I will
> probably try on an experimental basis.

-- 
Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

[Jörg Schaible]

covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:

> I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems
> to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a
> nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a
> while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works
> for you?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.

I am using dirvish for several years.

- Jörg