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Re: Preferred Backup Method?
From: Adam Hardy <adam.ant(at)cyberspaceroad.com>
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 18:19:01 EST
>> less frequent burn to tiny CD-R to fit in the Bank's Safety Deposit Box.
>>
>> Before I go away anywhere (i.e. out of town), I copy the most important
>> of the backup to a 4 GB USB stick.
>>
>> This means that I have a separate directory called "essential_backup"
>> with a symlink in each user's home directory. They are to place a
>> symlink of any critical data in that directory. That directory is
>> tarred up (following the symlinks) very frequently indeed and propogated
>> to the other box immediatly.
>>
>> The regular stuff is tarred up (tgz) and split to 650 MB size e.g.
>> backup.tgz.aa to fit on CD-Rs.
>> If security of the backups is required (other than physical security of
>> the media), then I use openssl to encrypt it with an unencrypted README
>> file, with the commands used to encrypt and decrypt (minus the actual
>> password), included on each backup media.
>> So, to answer your question re software: tar, gunzip, split, cat (to
>> rejoin splits), openssl, K3B, rsync, and mc.
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 18:19:01 EST
Ron Johnson on 04/12/07 22:22, wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/04/07 16:01, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip]
>> less frequent burn to tiny CD-R to fit in the Bank's Safety Deposit Box.
>>
>> Before I go away anywhere (i.e. out of town), I copy the most important
>> of the backup to a 4 GB USB stick.
>>
>> This means that I have a separate directory called "essential_backup"
>> with a symlink in each user's home directory. They are to place a
>> symlink of any critical data in that directory. That directory is
>> tarred up (following the symlinks) very frequently indeed and propogated
>> to the other box immediatly.
>>
>> The regular stuff is tarred up (tgz) and split to 650 MB size e.g.
>> backup.tgz.aa to fit on CD-Rs.
> > That's good for personal use (I do something similar, but send it > off to an external drive), but not adequate for a server. >
>> If security of the backups is required (other than physical security of
>> the media), then I use openssl to encrypt it with an unencrypted README
>> file, with the commands used to encrypt and decrypt (minus the actual
>> password), included on each backup media.
> > How do you do that? (I'd have uses gpg.) >
>> So, to answer your question re software: tar, gunzip, split, cat (to
>> rejoin splits), openssl, K3B, rsync, and mc.
faubackup
Advantage: will keep weekly, monthly, yearly backups, cropping the ones in-between so you end up with one per year, and then one per month last year, and then one per week last month etc.
Disadvantage: doesn't compress stuff. Well, I don't think it does. Didn't feel it was necessary after buying a Terabyte harddrive to backup to :) so I didn't look for the option.
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