[NBLUG/talk] Backups?

[troy]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:04:00PM -0700, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> 
> My question to the list is do you backup your home machines?  If not, what
> would you do if you lose it (no, seriously)?  Do you backup to some
> machine somewhere else?  Do you rely on other Kazaa users to backup your
> machine (just kidding)?

Here's my poor man's backup system:
Two machines, each running rdiff-backup[1] over ssh to back up one
machines important stuff to the other.  That saves me from hardware and
brainware failures.  Periodicially (though not often enough), I archive
to cdrom.

[1] rdiff-backup is a tool that works kinda like rsync.  The syntax is
similar and it uses a similar algorithm for transfering only the changed
parts of the files.  rdiff-backup stores incremental file diffs so you
can restore a file or set of files to any point since you began the
backups.  It's a very nice tool.

-troy