On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net> 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. > Backuppc has an option to do something like that out of the backup copies (extract the equivalent of a tar, compressed and split to files that will fit on your backup media) but it is sort of an afterthought. The real focus is on keeping a history of backups online stored in a very efficient form so you can keep much more than you would expect online and available in a given amount of disk space. It is much easier to use its web interface to pick a file from last month to restore than to have to extract it from some huge old tar files on dvds. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com