From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 21:10:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7FF1065672 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:10:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 068B58FC12 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:10:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A67F1041D5; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:10:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:10:02 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: B5EsKi6tZYlynwt9ehdbIG7IaQm/5x13Q6Hpw9uLt3RJ 1209244201 Received: from hagrid.ewd.goldmark.org (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B5B1029E6D; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:10:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3FF328B9-041B-4A36-9853-B8E6361EA4F8@goldmark.org> From: Jeffrey Goldberg To: "David N" In-Reply-To: <4d7dd86f0804261338r25e0d028tcaba1dde19c9444b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:10:00 -0500 References: <31702B1B-03EF-4505-8BDF-D82A90C865ED@goldmark.org> <4d7dd86f0804261338r25e0d028tcaba1dde19c9444b@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: USB HD based backup schemes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:10:03 -0000 On Apr 26, 2008, at 3:38 PM, David N wrote: > We used to use RSnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ to backup to an > external disk, its a great tool that also does incremental via hard > links which is a plus. Just after I posted, I started thinking about rsync. I hadn't known about rsync's hard link feature. So once I saw that, the trail did lead me to rsnapshot. The only thing I don't like about it is the security hole it demands of remote machines to be able to back up to them. > so to recover, you have to reinstall the base OS > and rsync the files back to get it up and running again. I'd be happy with that. > It may have problems locking active files, I've never tested it with > a DB before. I can also take a DB snapshot before running the dump. > But since then, we've moved to bacula. Bacula does look impressive. I'll probably get there some day. If I can deal with the security issue for the remote back-up this will be a perfect solution. If I can't I won't do remote back-up on the machine that is awkward to reach, I'll just have to re-arrange things. Thanks. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/