On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Leon Fauster wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Leon Fauster leonfauster@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Multiple incremental DVD backup program?
Am 01.11.2012 um 21:19 schrieb Keith Roberts:
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Les Mikesell wrote:
Just a knee-jerk reaction because I like it so well, but whenever anyone mentions backups I have to recommend backuppc. If you have any other system that can work over the network (perhaps offsite via VPN) and hold copies on-line you might like it. It is the kind of thing that you can set up once and it will take care of itself for years. It can use rsync for the transport so after your initial copy you only need bandwidth for the changes.
That's something I might take a look at. What I want to do is make backups that are on removable media, so they are not dependant on a machine for their data safety. Once I have burnt the backups to DVD they will be stored away then, just in case I need them.
i suggest to burn it twice on different media and migrate the data to new media after a couple of years :-)
Hi Leon.
I don't expect to keep the same DVD backup set for more than ~12 months. I just make periodic backups from my dedicated backup drive to DVD/CDs, to get the data away from the PC and onto something hopefully more permanent than HDD's.
Usually I can restore straight from the backup drive in the PC. I may have used the CD/DVD media when 3 HDD's decided to fail at around the same time.
Here's the script's I wrote in PHP to be run by cron in the early hours of the morning, and posted on the Fedora forum.
Generic PHP CL backup script http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=248436
Kind Regards,
Keith (CD-RW)
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