On 12/07/2013 10:43 AM, "David Guntner" wrote:
>
> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
> program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
> system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
> backup and daily incremental b
Hi
> May I put in a vote for BackupPC?
+1 for BackupPC
> The Pros as I see them are:
> * Web based configuration, making it easy to get started with (but you
>can also dig into plain-text config files easily enough, too.
> * Can backup a machine using rsync, rsyncd, tar-over-ssh or even S
On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 09:33:00 -0700
Bill Harris wrote:
> Martin Steigerwald writes:
>
> > There are so many solutions that I can easily spend a week or more to
> > evaluate and compare them all. You already got a lot of suggestions
> > for file-based approaches.
>
> I must have trashed the star
Martin Steigerwald writes:
> There are so many solutions that I can easily spend a week or more to
> evaluate and compare them all. You already got a lot of suggestions
> for file-based approaches.
I must have trashed the start of this thread, so I don't know everything
that has been mentioned,
Martin Steigerwald grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 17:42:27 schrieb David Guntner:
>> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
>> program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
>> system to a second hard
Hi David,
Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 17:42:27 schrieb David Guntner:
> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
> program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
> system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
> backup
Try Faronics Deep Freeze.. I think this is the software that you are
looking for... As I'm using it from last several years .. It is helping me
a lot.
I back up 20 or so hosts and have about the same story as Gary. As with any
backup solution, I do spot-check backups on occasion, just to make sure
that in your moment of need, the files are really there. :)
I use the default location of /var/lib/backuppc as my default location for
my file store a
Gary Roach grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> I'm suprised that it took so long for someone to mention backuppc. I've
> been using it for some time and the biggest problem is forgetting its
> there. I set mine up to backup 3 systems, all debian wheezy and used
> rsyncd as the transport agent. You can
On 07/12/2013 07:52 AM, Rob Owens wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "David Guntner"
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a week
On 12/07/13 01:58, Jeff Bauer wrote:
On 07/11/2013 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I
described above?
I know of no such package, though there very well may be one available.
On the other hand, a simple back up script using rsync can
Years back I went to duplicity, which is a highly flexible tool. Months
ago I wrote a perl script to create duplicity backup profiles and set up
cron entries to automate the backup procedure. Also, upon completion, it
sends user a mail with backup summary and attached compressed backup log
file.
T
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 10:16 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> >
> > There's a Wiki about what to consider for the most safe backup:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law
>
> I used to read a lot of Larry Niven, so I'm well versed with the concep
On 12/07/13 01:09 PM, David Guntner wrote:
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On 12/07/13 12:18 PM, David Guntner wrote:
My particular issue is that while I have a second drive for backups
already installed in the Windows machine, I don't for the Linux machine.
So when I'm ready to start
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> There's a Wiki about what to consider for the most safe backup:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law
I used to read a lot of Larry Niven, so I'm well versed with the concept
of Finagle's Law (and yes, I know it was John Campbell Jr who orig
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 12/07/13 12:18 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>>
>> My particular issue is that while I have a second drive for backups
>> already installed in the Windows machine, I don't for the Linux machine.
>> So when I'm ready to start this, I'm going to have to buy the
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:16 -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> Ralf has a good point about backing up everything possible, just in
> case.
> But even if you do back up your entire system, there's no harm in
> backing up your package list like this -- just in case.
A hyper-paranoid +1 ;).
There's a Wiki ab
On 12/07/13 12:18 PM, David Guntner wrote:
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
You'd only need one new drive, and that's just because your two current
drives are apparently of different sizes. However, you can also create a
RAID 1 array using the smaller drive and part of the larger one. Th
Rob Owens grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> - Original Message -
>> From: "David Guntner"
>>
>> I'll look into the --set-selections thing you mention above; I'm
>> going
>> to assume there's a corresponding command that produces
>> "mypackagelist,"
>> :-) so I suppose I could make it part of
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> You'd only need one new drive, and that's just because your two current
> drives are apparently of different sizes. However, you can also create a
> RAID 1 array using the smaller drive and part of the larger one. The
> rest of the larger drive wouldn't
- Original Message -
> From: "David Guntner"
>
> I'll look into the --set-selections thing you mention above; I'm
> going
> to assume there's a corresponding command that produces
> "mypackagelist,"
> :-) so I suppose I could make it part of the backup procedure to make
> a
> new one of t
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 08:14 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> "mypackagelist"
I prefer to backup the working system as it is. To backup data and to
restore software that is available by packages by repositories instead
of restoring it from a backup easily could lead to issues. Perhaps there
are reason
Rob Owens grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> In another post you stated that you wanted to be able to restore an
> entire system. Just keep in mind that there are things like /dev,
> /proc, and the mbr that you will need to work around. It's not quite
> as simple as backing up everything and then
- Original Message -
> From: "David Guntner"
>
> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
> program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
> system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly
> full
> backup and daily incr
Darac Marjal grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> May I put in a vote for BackupPC?
Sure! :-) I'm interested in knowing what's out there, so I can look
them all over and decide which one will best do the job I want it to do.
> The Pros as I see them are:
> * Web based configuration, making it ea
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 05:42:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
> program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
> system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
> backup and daily
On 12/07/13 12:03 AM, David Guntner wrote:
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Bacula. It backs up whatever you want it to however you want it to.
It's not as simple as some, but if you want a comprehensive backup
solution, it's hard to beat. Bacula has some pretty good job definitions
set
Jude DaShiell grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> add -z to that rsync command and you get your data compression. Also,
> it's the source and destination that count here. If your source is backed
> up and compressed then all you have to do to effect a restore operation is
> use the original destin
add -z to that rsync command and you get your data compression. Also,
it's the source and destination that count here. If your source is backed
up and compressed then all you have to do to effect a restore operation is
use the original destination as the next source and the original source as
Glenn English grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> AMANDA. It does incremental backups (not just mirrors -- so it backs
> up only what's necessary, and you can deal with "oh why did I edit
> *that*?" too) in such a way that, in case of a major disaster, you
> can recover using tools like tar and dump
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> Bacula. It backs up whatever you want it to however you want it to.
>
> It's not as simple as some, but if you want a comprehensive backup
> solution, it's hard to beat. Bacula has some pretty good job definitions
> set up by default to do, for example,
On 11/07/13 11:29 PM, Glenn English wrote:
On Jul 11, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 11/07/13 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard
On Jul 11, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 11/07/13 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
>> program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
>> system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do
On 11/07/13 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
backup and daily incremental backups, clean
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> A Linux even can be backuped by simply coping the files. What you want
> are tools like rsync, tar, clonezilla etc. ...
>
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backup+linux
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backup+debian
Thanks, will look into those.
--Dave
smime
Jerome BENOIT grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> On 12/07/13 02:42, David Guntner wrote:
>> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
>> program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
>> system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a we
Go Linux grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> I use a combination of rsync for home and specific directories and
> refractasnapshot -
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/files/refractasnapshot/ - for
> complete system recovery (as well as portable live iso of my system).
> If you poke around the ref
Jeff Bauer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 07/11/2013 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>> Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I
>> described above?
>
> I know of no such package, though there very well may be one available.
> On the other hand, a simple back up script us
- Original Message -
> From: David Guntner
> To: Linux Debian Mailing List
> Cc:
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 7:42 PM
> Subject: Backup/Restore software?
>
> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
> program called Acron
On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 20:58 -0400, Jeff Bauer wrote:
> Using that for /home and other directories
You need to make a snapshot of some directories, if you want to backup a
running Linux. I'm not aware about a command doing it for Linux, for
FreeBSD there is a command doing this. I backup a Linux wi
PS: If you use wildecards to backup your Linux, than read about globbing
first.
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A Linux even can be backuped by simply coping the files. What you want
are tools like rsync, tar, clonezilla etc. ...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backup+linux
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backup+debian
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On 07/11/2013 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I
described above?
I know of no such package, though there very well may be one available.
On the other hand, a simple back up script using rsync can do the trick
for you. And example to
Hello Dave,
On 12/07/13 02:42, David Guntner wrote:
> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
> program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
> system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
> backup and daily incremen
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my
system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
backup and daily incremental backups, cleaning up older backup chains
and so on.
My Lin
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:13:46AM -0500, Blair Mason wrote:
..snip.
> Your best bet would probably be rsync. You can use it for pretty much
> anything... Basically, you use `rsync file dest`. You also probably want the
> -avz options. So, the easiest solution is
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:13:46 -0500 (CDT)
Blair Mason wrote:
[Please wrap long lines.]
> Mar 14, 2011 04:48:22 AM, balaji.p...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am using Debian Lenny, kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686.
> > I am very new to linux.
> > Can you please let me know the steps for backing up my
On 03/14/2011 01:13 PM, Blair Mason wrote:
Mar 14, 2011 04:48:22 AM, balaji.p...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using Debian Lenny, kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686.
> I am very new to linux.
> Can you please let me know the steps for backing up my linux PC
(maybe to a CD) and later restoring from it
Mar 14, 2011 04:48:22 AM, balaji.p...@gmail.com wrote:> Hi,> I am using Debian Lenny, kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686.> I am very new to linux. > Can you please let me know the steps for backing up my linux PC (maybe to a CD) and later restoring from it when required.
> Also let me know if I can ins
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> Chris Parker wrote:
> Question being is it possible to restore a backup from a win32 (2003
> server) ntfs filesystem via tape onto a linux machine. I want to be
> able to test our backups to make sure all is restorable. If this i
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Question being is it possible to restore a backup from a win32 (2003
server) ntfs filesystem via tape onto a linux machine. I want to be
able to test our backups to make sure all is restorable. If this is
possible how to do it i
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Question being is it possible to restore a backup from a win32 (2003
server) ntfs filesystem via tape onto a linux machine. I want to be
able to test our backups to make sure all is restorable. If this is
possible how to do it into an ext3, ext2 or o
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian
> install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat
> is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all
> other hardare is unchanged).
I saw
ge has the option to split into more than one file so that you
can burn the image to CD/DVD. It can also backup/restore from/to a
remote machine. It has dropped out of some Debian repositories for the
moment, so you may need to build it yourself or use the live CD
(http://www.partimage.org/).
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:28:15PM -0800, Casey T. Deccio wrote:
> I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian
> install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat
> is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all
> other hardar
On Feb 15, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Casey T. Deccio wrote:
I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian
install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The
caveat
is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all
other hardare is unchanged
On Thursday 15 February 2007 14:28, Casey T. Deccio wrote:
> I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian
> install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat
> is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all
> other hardare is u
I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian
install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat
is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all
other hardare is unchanged). I wasn't sure if there was a way to do
this with dd bec
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> Is there is a way to save/backup debian installed package ?
>
> For example i have installed package 'test version 1.0' and i have
> installed package 'test version 1.1'. For some reasons i want to
> restore to 'test version 1.0' but i have not 'test.deb' file 'version
>
What about hold options in dpkg?
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you need to recover when
== it breaks, esp if you cannot recover to any random day at any
== time to simulate that your backup/restore is working right
==
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> I meaned my own deb packages that are not on the Internet.
In that case, if you didn't keep copies of old debs, no-one else can
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On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 04:02 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there is a way to save/backup debian installed package ?
>
> For example i have installed package 'test version 1.0' and i have
> installed package 'test version 1.1'. For some reasons i want to
> restore to 'test version 1.0' but i
Is there is a way to save/backup debian installed package ?
For example i have installed package 'test version 1.0' and i have
installed package 'test version 1.1'. For some reasons i want to
restore to 'test version 1.0' but i have not 'test.deb' file 'version
1.0'.
How can i backup 'test version
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:29:43AM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> However, I've just run into a problem I've never encountered (or never
> knew I encountered) before - I'm getting messages saying "socket
> such_and_such skipped.
Here is some output from my daily backup script:
Tarring various stuf
Hi all,
I'm wanting to make my linux partition slightly smaller to make room for
that other OS. I've got / on a reiserfs partition, which i believe
cannot beresized at the start, so I'll have to backup the whole system,
repartition, and restore. No sweat, I've done this before.
However, I've j
Thanks for providing me with some very valuable ideas.
I ended up doing the following:
1. Compiled kernel to 2.6.11.12 with CIFS support
2. Mounted my win 2003 shares
3. Used rsnapshot to back up shares to apache web directory - easy for file
restore.
This seems to be a good solution that will a
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Michael Martinell wrote:
> > Does anybody have any suggestions for this?
>
> Erm, why the requirement for a web interface? That right there is the
> killer because backup/restore is generally thought of an admin task which
&
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:41:07 -0700
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Martinell wrote:
> > Does anybody have any suggestions for this?
>
> Erm, why the requirement for a web interface? That right there is
> the killer because backup/restore is generally th
Jacob S wrote:
> It saved my life (well, several hours of it, anyway) when I accidentally
> deleted all the mysql databases on my server. (Yes, it was a very stupid
> mistake. Don't ask. :-)
Why do people always tease about a potentially humerous anecdote and then
tell us not to prompt for it'
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:09:33 -0500
"Michael Martinell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking for a backup/restore solution that would fall into the
> following category:
> 1. Web interface to apache
> 2. Able to select mount points or files in the interface
> 3.
Michael Martinell wrote:
> Does anybody have any suggestions for this?
Erm, why the requirement for a web interface? That right there is the
killer because backup/restore is generally thought of an admin task which
implies to some degree having command line access on the box(es) in quest
I am looking for a backup/restore solution that would fall into the
following category:
1. Web interface to apache
2. Able to select mount points or files in the interface
3. Able to perform a restore of a specified file in the backup
I have searched google quite a bit, however I can only find
Hi,
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Dr. Michael Koltai wrote:
> I'd like to backup a partition (and restore). How to do that?
> I think using the 'cp' or the 'dd' programs. I'd like to create (if possible
> compressed file) from a partition ( like /dev/hda1 ) and if I need
> restore from this big file. If
on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:38:01PM +0200, Dr . Michael Koltai ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to backup a partition (and restore). How to do that?
> I think using the 'cp' or the 'dd' programs. I'd like to create (if
> possible compressed file) from a partition ( like /dev/hda1 ) a
Hi,
I'd like to backup a partition (and restore). How to do that?
I think using the 'cp' or the 'dd' programs. I'd like to create (if possible
compressed file) from a partition ( like /dev/hda1 ) and if I need
restore from this big file. If it possible I'd like to store this on a floppy
disk( o
We have a small server, with no bulk backup device, but has network and
CDrom reader.
What is the easiest way to be able to recover everything in case of a crash?
E.g. make big tar, ftp to remote site, and then restore?
But I presume that one cannot overlay a running system. Thus boot to flopp
On 17/12/99 Matthew Bloch wrote:
I'm not sure where you'd
go to back up the list of installed packages so that you could
automagically restore them, though.
I think that dpkg --get-selections > installedpackages.bkup should do
it, then you should be able to do a dpkg --set-selections <
insta
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, andreas p?lsson wrote:
> I don't have any mission-critical data or system, so "tar" and "gzip"
> are enough for me.
afio is similar to tar, but gzips individual files instead of the whole
lot, so if you get a corruption it'll more than likely affect only the one
file rather t
Hello.
Lately I have been thinking alot about backups on Unix-systems.
I don't have any mission-critical data or system, so "tar" and "gzip"
are enough for me.
But I was thinking, what is a good backup-strategy when I run Debian?
I find it useless to "tar ... gzip" whole "/" and it's subdirector
@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Does anyone use ZIP disks to backup/restore their system?
How?
Hi,
Thanks for the replies, it's really nice to know how others
deal with the "backup" issue(s).
I'm really hoping to implement a backup strategy that will allow
me to backup/res
Hi,
Thanks for the replies, it's really nice to know how others
deal with the "backup" issue(s).
I'm really hoping to implement a backup strategy that will allow
me to backup/restore my entire linux system. Over the last 10
hours or so, I have been researching &q
done manually, but only needs to be done when you change the
configuration.
paul
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From: E.L. Meijer (Eric) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 3:37 AM
To: debian
Subject: Re: Does anyone use ZIP disks to backup/restore their system?
How?
On Tue, N
On 02 Nov 1999, John Miskinis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do not understand everything in the MSPLIT description, but
> I am certainly willing to play around with it. I'm surprised at
> the few responses I got about my question. I assumed lots of people
> would be using ZIP disks for a backups/restor
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 06:29:45PM -0800, John Miskinis wrote:
> Hi,
[...]
> This leads me to ask if most people just backup their important
> files on linux, and if they lose their system, they reinstall from
> scratch, then restore just their important (user modified) files?
Not even that.
blems with.
From: "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian
Subject: Re: Does anyone use ZIP disks to backup/restore their system?
How?
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 13:29:38 +0100
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:56:05AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 1
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:56:05AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:11:09AM -0800, John Miskinis wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm hoping to find a set of tools that will allow a linux system
> > to be backed up, and restored, using ZIP disks. I would really
> > appreciate an
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:11:09AM -0800, John Miskinis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm hoping to find a set of tools that will allow a linux system
> to be backed up, and restored, using ZIP disks. I would really
> appreciate any advise on this subject, from anyone who has
> successfully restored a system
figure out everything I did to get my
PCMCIA->SCSI->CDROM and IMM zip working, and when I do, I do not
want to experiment with backup/restore solutions on my own!
Many thanks as always,
John
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