On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Ray Leventhal centos@swhi.net wrote:

Hi,

I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs.

Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated. Pointers to good how-to's especially welcome.

Currently we're using Arkeia Network Backup (commercial product with which I am in no way affiliated), and it's great, but with disk space so cheap, I'd love to be able to take my current non-raid setup and find a way to get up and running quickly in the case of some failures.

Thanks in advance, -Ray

The original guide (that I know of) for doing disk to disk backups with rsync can be found here: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Then there's "dirvish" which I think it based on that method: http://www.dirvish.org/

Next there's rdiff-backup, which can be found here: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

I think there are some other rsync-related backups too. I hear good thing about the "backup pc" project. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/