[Techtalk] seeking backup solution recommendations

[Maria Sund]

Rudy Zijlstra kirjoitti 10.2.2021 klo 13.07:
> Hi Meryll,
>
> Have you looked at rdiff-backup? Do not know if it will work in your 
> setup though, as it is not the fastest. It is cli based though and 
> make differential backups
>
> Cheers
>
> Rudy
Rsnapshot is one solution that might work also. Rsnapshot makes it easy 
to make periodic snapshots of local machines, and remote machines over 
ssh. The code makes extensive use of hard links whenever possible, to 
greatly reduce the disk space required. There are no tapes to change, so 
once it’s set up, your backups can happen automatically untouched by 
human hands. And because rsnapshot only keeps a fixed, but configurable 
number of snapshots, the amount of disk space used will not continuously 
grow.

I have no experience about tapes, so I have no idea if this is too slow 
solution.

https://rsnapshot.org/

@@ Maria

>
> On 09-02-2021 05:55, Meryll Larkin wrote:
>> Hi Little Girl,
>>
>> Whoops!  You are correct.  I did receive a response from you! You wrote
>> about GRsync and I forgot about it because you mentioned "dry run 
>> button".
>>
>> I'm working with the Linux command line and I SHOULD have asked - what
>> happens with GRSync if I don't have access to "GUI"?
>>
>> Yes, I know  how to do ssh X forwarding, the problem is that the 
>> connection
>> is so slow... screen redraw takes forever and it always feels like it is
>> about to freeze or drop.    If there is a command line menu or 
>> command line
>> options, that would be better for me.   I guess I can research that, 
>> too.
>>
>> I have used (regular) rsync for backups for years, and it is the 
>> solution I
>> use in my own home - I created an rsync script that runs weekly with 
>> cron.
>>
>> My experience with (regular) rsync and the tapes that I am using is 
>> that tar
>> with the right BlockSize and blocking-factor tends to be faster.
>> Faster is important when the issue is input to a single tape of a 
>> repository
>> with 25T of data.
>>
>> Still good to hear of another option though.  Someone will probably 
>> benefit
>> from your information.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Meryll Larkin
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Little Girl [mailto:littlergirl at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 2:03 PM
>> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
>> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] seeking backup solution recommendations
>>
>> Hey there,
>>
>> Meryll Larkin wrote:
>>
>>> No one else has responded,
>> I'm going to have to decide whether to use my powers of invisibility
>> for good or evil, for they are strong. I guess it's a good thing that
>> good looks more appealing. Anyway, good luck to you and I hope you
>> find a solution that you're happy with.
>>
>
>
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