Comments on: rsync backup script

By: robinetd

robinetd — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:26:40 +0000

in soviet russia, sad panda makes you.

By: anthony

anthony — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:49:10 +0000

@robinetd, you make me a sad panda.

By: robinetd

robinetd — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:25:34 +0000

“Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ”

On a more serious note, using tarballs (tarbombs) for backups makes me a sad panda.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:18:43 +0000

That’s cool. The advantage to using a script like mine would be if you accidentally delete something you’d still have the backup of it from the previous day. After setting up my script someone told me that rsnapshot (available via aptitude) does almost the same thing and is easy to set up, so it might be worth having a look at that if you’re interested.

By: Mark Henrick

Mark Henrick — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:31:12 +0000

hey matt, its mark henrick from BBC. i have been using rysnc to backup my home server with this command

$rsync -avs –delete mark@192.168.1.6:/var/www /media/disk2/My\ Documents/backup/server.

btw, do you maintain these servers yourself, or is it a professional company

By: matt

matt — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:13:49 +0000

Have a look at the http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ link from my post – the idea there is to keep only 3 or 4 backups, rotating the names and deleting the oldest on each run.
The disadvantage with using tar is your hardlinks won’t save any space once you’ve copied the files into tarballs

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:13:51 +0000

This is neat, I might work this around a bit or add another script to tar and keep the past few backups that way. I don’t need full backups everyday forever, but it’s a sweet start.