Re: backup your data

from Dean Jackson <[email protected]>, Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:32:19 +1000

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gerald

On Sep 30, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:

> A while ago I wrote about my backup scheme [1]; briefly: keep
> everything in one master space and rsync it regularly to an external
> USB drive, then swap that USB drive out once in a while for another
> one that you keep offsite.
>
> jwz just wrote something that recommends doing the same, but his
> version is more entertaining. http://jwz.livejournal.com/801607.html

"If you're using Windows, go fuck yourself." :)

Gerald, are you still happy with duplicity?

Dean

Re: backup your data

from Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]>, Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:32:52 -0700

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* Dean Jackson <[email protected]> [2007-10-11 06:32+1000]

>Gerald, are you still happy with duplicity?

I'm still using it, but I haven't needed to restore anything from
backup yet.

I don't trust it enough to use it as my only backup.

Brackup has made progress since the last time I tried it:
http://brad.livejournal.com/tag/brackup

(but I wouldn't trust it on its own either)

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Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]>
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Re: backup your data

from Dean Jackson <[email protected]>, Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:59:31 +1000

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On Oct 11, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:

> * Dean Jackson <[email protected]> [2007-10-11 06:32+1000]
>
>> Gerald, are you still happy with duplicity?
>
> I'm still using it, but I haven't needed to restore anything from
> backup yet.

Did you ever find a way around downloading the huge signature file
each time?

> I don't trust it enough to use it as my only backup.

Right, I wouldn't either. I just want it as the offsite backup (using
dreamhost). I could use regular rsync, but I like that duplicity does
the encryption on the server side automatically.

> Brackup has made progress since the last time I tried it: http://brad.livejournal.com/tag/brackup
>
> (but I wouldn't trust it on its own either)

I'll check it out.

Dean

Re: backup your data

from Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]>, Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:11:34 -0700

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* Dean Jackson <[email protected]> [2007-10-11 07:59+1000]

>Did you ever find a way around downloading [duplicity's] huge
>signature file each time?

No, but I haven't tried. I only run it about once a month.

One solution to that (and another annoying thing about duplicity,
that you have to start over if the full backup is interrupted)
would be to tell duplicity to backup to local disk, then rsync
that chunked+encrypted copy to the remote target.

But that requires you to have enough local disk space to store an
extra encrypted copy of everything you want to back up.

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Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/

Re: backup your data

from Karl Dubost <[email protected]>, Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:28:19 +0900

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Someone tried this one?

rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility
for making backups of local and remote systems.
-- rsnapshot
http://www.rsnapshot.org/
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:27:02 GMT

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Karl Dubost - Tokyo, Japon
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