[ale] Looking for backup solution.

[Nathan]

Thank you for this!!  I had been looking for something like this [rvm] 
for some time and had even broken down and started trying to write a 
script to do it myself (if you knew me, you'd know what a bad idea that 
was).  At any rate, after reading over the available docs rvm looks to 
be *exactly* what I was looking for.  The best part is, someone else has 
already written it :).  Anyway, I generally just lurk around here but 
had to chime in and say thank you on this one. 

Ronald K. Mellema wrote:
> This reply is rsync specific so based on requirement 3 it may be
> inappropriate. However, I am using a program to do incremental backups
> with rsync that I have not seen discussed here before and I would like
> to suggest it. I tried most of the scripted front ends to rsync but was
> dissatisfied until I found a new binary on SourceForge called RVM (Rsync
> Vault Manager). It creates date stamped directories with hard links to
> the original files and results in very small incremental backups. It was
> installed in January on a SUSE box and has run by cron every night since
> without a single hitch. I strongly recommend RVM. I have not tried rsync
> on Windows so I cannot comment on that usage.
>
> It is interesting to note that RVM went stable 1.0 last November and on
> SourceForge there is not one bug report or patch, yet it is actively
> downloaded. It is extremely stable.
>
> Ron Mellema
> ron at exithere.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 2:02 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] Looking for backup solution.
>
> I tried bacula because it had everything I needed, however I couldn't 
> get it to work the first time and then when I tried later it seemed to 
> work after screwing with it too long.  Now all of a sudden it started 
> failing. 
>
> So I'm going to trash it and try something else. 
>
> What I liked about bacula were the following features.
>
> * it does either full backups or incremental ones.
> * it allows me to include/exclude directories/files.
> * it runs from a single machine and dumps files from multiple systems, 
> including Windows
>
> Rsync does the second, but unless you write some sort of script to 
> schedule the target in different places, it  won't solve the first and 
> as far as I know it doesn't do the third for windows.  I know you can 
> run rsync on windows, but you can't schedule it from Linux unless you 
> install some sort of ssh server on the windows box.  I'd rather have a 
> complete package that runs everwhere if possible.
>
> I'm dumping to a dedicated 200 Gb drive on one of my Linux boxes.  I 
> dont have a tape drive.
>  
> Dump is pretty quick, but it doesn't let me exclude the crap I really 
> don't want to be bothered with among other limitations.
>
> So does anyone know of any reasonable solutions? Something that'll last 
> more than a couple of months?  (bacula)
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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