On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:29:21 Erwan David wrote: > Le 05/06/2016 à 16:27, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:59:41 Erwan David wrote: > >> I have my backups done with duply and duplicity. > >> > >> However duply from stable uses deprecated options of duplicity, and > >> duply from testing has a bug which obliges to write a gpg > >> passphrase in clear text. Since bug 807329 has no answer at all, I > >> am looking to another way to do my backups, which could use all the > >> past backups for the transition. > >> > >> What to use ? > > > > I am a great fan of amanda, and have been using it since the late > > '90's. Once configured and running, I can forget about it as the job > > of making a backup becomes just another entry in a crontab. I get an > > emailed report, both from amanda and from my wrappers. amanda does > > its own housekeeping and record keeping, and recovery is very fast > > if using virtual tapes that are actually directories on another big > > hard drive. And the drive is about $90 at the vendors for a 1Tb, > > which I think is very comparable to a tape library and 40 or so > > tapes at something north of $10,000. And in nearly a decade, > > 50,000% more dependable than tape. One drive failed in a decade, > > and it warned me in plenty of time to go to town and get another. > > Zero data loss. > > > > But you will have to get rid of your do a full on Friday's. You tell > > amanda how many days amanda has to do a level0 on everything, and > > amanda will fiddle with the schedule until each nights run saves > > about the same amount of data. Everything else gets an incremental. > > So I can do a bare metal recovery to a new main drive with nothing > > more than the install dvd, tar and cp to extract last nights copy of > > the database and amanda config that generated that backup, giving > > amanda the data it needs to do its work, and have this system > > restored to its state as of about 2am this morning, all in about 3 > > hours + the time to go get a new drive from Staples. > > > > Whats not to like? > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Can amanda backyup on a ftp server or google drive ? > > That's what I do now.
That I have not attempted, but it might be possible. But me, being king of the paranoids, don't think putting my data out for the snoops to peruse can possibly be a good idea. I don't think I have a thing they might be interested in that is not already available from my web page below. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
