[plug] Current state / method / best programs to backup home desktop Ubuntu 13.04

[Shanon Loughton]

Brad thanks for the offer, Id love you to help setup my backup system,
thanks!


On 13 August 2013 10:10, Brad Campbell <brad at fnarfbargle.com> wrote:

> On 13/08/13 09:39, Gregory Orange wrote:
>
>  I was going to mention my rdiff-backup based solution similar to
>> Brad's, but you said 'easiest' so I held off (: It's pretty
>> straightforward, but there is a bit of shell scripting to make it
>> behave the way I want. I also rotate between two USB backup disks and
>> take one to the office for a level of unplugged, offsite backup.
>>
>> I guess it's the sysadmin tradeoff - more work to setup, very low
>> effort to operate and maintain. I detest the other way around (or at
>> least the 'more work to operate and maintain' part).
>>
>
> I once heard someone say "A good sysadmin is a lazy sysadmin". An
> automated system (if done right) is infinitely more reliable than a manual
> process.
>
> Every machine I have access to is backed up nightly to a local WD live at
> home with 60 days of rotating history, and once a week the current snapshot
> is exported to the remote backup where there are 15 weeks of rotating
> backups (we are both on Amnet, so effectively free bandwidth).
>
> I get an e-mail once a day with a list of the backups, how long each one
> took (wall clock time) and which (if any) remote machines or laptops were
> skipped due to connectivity issues.
>
> <last nights>
> Backup of root at ns1.fnarfbargle.com:/ completed in 3 Minutes, 28 Seconds
> Backup of root at ns2.fnarfbargle.com:/ completed in 1 Minute, 33 Seconds
> Backup of root at ns3.fnarfbargle.com:/ completed in 24 Seconds
> Backup of root at bkmac:/ completed in 15 Minutes, 56 Seconds
> Backup of root at bkmac:/home/ completed in 28 Minutes, 38 Seconds
> Backup of root at bklaptop:/ completed in 8 Minutes, 38 Seconds
> Backup of root at bklaptop:/home/ completed in 44 Minutes, 36 Seconds
> Backup of root at bklaptop:/tracks/ completed in 7 Minutes, 4 Seconds
> ssh: connect to host cot.vpn port 22: Connection timed out
>
> Backup of root at cot.vpn:/ failed due to connectivity
> mount: can't find /media/removable in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> Backup USB drive is not mounted
> Backup of root at srv:/ completed in 6 Minutes, 43 Seconds
> Backup of root at srv:/home/ completed in 16 Minutes, 23 Seconds
> Backup of root at srv:/server/ccd-enc/ completed in 29 Seconds
> Backup of root at srv:/s/work/ completed in 1 Minute, 17 Seconds
> Backup of root at srv:/server/zimbra-**backup/ completed in 34 Seconds
> Backup of root at ccd-server.vm:/ completed in 42 Seconds
> Backup of root at zimbra.vm:/ completed in 1 Minute, 43 Seconds
> Backup of root at zimbra.vm:/opt/zimbra/ completed in 7 Minutes, 30 Seconds
>
> It took a little while to get it working "just so", but it has paid off
> many times over in recovery from both fat fingers and hardware failures.
>
> I'm the go-to guy when friends and family have hard disk failures and it's
> a service I'd be more than happy to never provide again. I can't emphasise
> enough the importance of a good backup system.
>
>
>
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