On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:27:18AM +0000, Travers Buda wrote: > > My favorite solution is rsnapshot in ports. It beats rsync and scp > because not only does it allow you to specify what and when to backup, > but it uses hard links. What's that got to do with anything? Well it > rsyncs everything on the first backup, and only the differences there > after. But it makes every backup look like a full backup (every > file) because it hard-links the unchanged stuff into the latest backup > dir. So you get a complete backup dir every time sans lots of file > transfers and space taken up on the backup storage box.
Seconded here. I have rsnapshot on one box that backs up various directories on various hosts, such as /etc, /root, /home, /var/www/users, /var/named, etc, etc. Every night I have a script that tars up /var/snapshots & ftps it offsite. Doesn't matter if I'm in hospital with my daughter for a few weeks as I don't need to move media about the place. Works so well that I no longer upgrade. Every 6 months is a complete disk wipe and install, then data restore.
