[CentOS] backup to disk

Barry Brimer lists at brimer.org
Sat Mar 29 18:58:30 UTC 2008



On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Ray Leventhal 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.

Have you looked at rsnapshot <http://www.rsnapshot.org> ??



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