Re: Opinions Needed- backup, was - Article on K3b

From: Vahis (vahis_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:38:20 +0200

houghi wrote:
> Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
>> Will K3b back up to a CD ROM incrementally, rather than having to erase
>> the whole thing to put something new on it?
>
> k3b is a burning tool, not a backup tool. Don't tell me you use it as a
> backup tool.
>
> I personally use backup2l as a backuptool. I let it backup to a seperate
> partition that I only mount for this purpose.

Opinion of what I'm doing?
I use a week clock timer for turning on an external USB drive for
mirroring my /home, /etc and /srv.

I have cron jobs to mirror them like:
# rsync -are --delete /home/* /media/usbdisk/mirror/home/
There are separate cronjobs for these different directories to take
place in different times and frequencies.

This is not backing up in it's meaning but I see an advantage here.
If the machine fails I just put the disk on another one and do the
mounts. Since the other machine has a normal clean install SUSE boot on
one small drive to take over, my server is up and running in no time at all.

Normally I am booting this other box to Alphas (Alpha 3 tonight) and stuff.

>
> The reason is that it was the easiest to restore.
> http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/ If I would like, I could add something
> that puts it on a DVD, although that would need to be a dual layer,
> because it is more then 4.2 GB.
>
> Backing up is a serious something and I would personally never let a GUI
> tool, let alone a burning software at it.
> 

-- 
Vahis

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