rdiff-backup is it best openSource continous backup solution?

[Jaco]

I've started making use of a few systems for a whole snapshot solution.
* VM's off a ZFS NAS - ZFS allows for some really cool snapshot 
functionality (using NAS4Free now, but used FreeNAS in the past. 
OpenMediaVault is a .deb fork, but does not support ZFS :( (ZFS is 
userspace in Linux - not Unix - so significant performance knock)
* PXE - some PXE systems enable you to semi-automatically/autonomously 
do imaging of hosts. If you need some quick & easy to get you going, 
check out erPXE & the FOG project

So, putting these together, you may be able to PXE boot a baremetal host 
& image it to ZFS - & do interesting automated rsync stuff then.

Hope this helps

- Jaco

On 21/02/13 12:30, Rajeev Prasad wrote:
> Tyler,
>
> I really appreciate the gentleness of responding to the both questions.
>
> I realized that a complete snapshot of the system (my requirement #6), 
> which can be restored in one go (all OS/Apps/data etc.) is best done 
> using software like clonezilla (I am looking at clonezilla right now).
>
> the other part of my requirment seem to be met by backuppc. I found 
> the software after i sent the original email to this list. (So I 
> opened my account on backuppc and will ask future quest on the product 
> there).
>
> I liked rdiff-backup when i saw it first time, but when i saw last 
> release was in 2009. I wanted to be sure, if there is devolpment being 
> done on it (say for another LTS release if any FS changes comes along 
> etc.). So I asked if active devlopment is happenign on it or not.
>
> with kind regards.
> Rajeev
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Tyler J. Wagner <tyler at tolaris.com>
> *To:* Rajeev Prasad <rp.neuli at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* ubuntuserver <ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com>; Ubuntu technical 
> support not for general discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 20, 2013 5:00 PM
> *Subject:* Re: rdiff-backup is it best openSource continous backup 
> solution?
>
> I saw your post to the BackupPC user list. I prefer BackupPC, but it's not
> ideal for bare-metal restore. It's ideal for "whoops, undelete", and as
> poor-man's version control. It can be used for bare-metal restore as well,
> but I recommend installing a base OS from the install media, then 
> restoring
> over that using BackupPC_tarCreate at the CLI. If you want to continue 
> this
> discussion, please take it to the BackupPC user list.
>
> Otherwise, rdiff-backup is great, supported, and works fine. Rsync + diff,
> what's not to love?
>
> I personally use rsync to a LUKS-encrypted removable drive once a month or
> so, plus BackupPC to get the dailies. I use BackupPC at home and at my
> company, where we have ~70 Linux servers and workstations, and 5 Windows
> PCs, all safely backed up for the past 3 months, to just 4 TB.
>
> Regards,
> Tyler
>
> On 2013-02-20 20:08, Rajeev Prasad wrote:
> > Gurus,
> >
> > need words of wisdom adn experiecne on backup solution for my ub server
> > 1204 LTS
> >
> > a quick seacrh produced many results
> > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem> and this continous
> > backup solution(rdiff-backup <http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/>).
> >
> > is rdiff-backup currently managed?
> >
> > need something which:
> >
> > 1. actively managed/devloped. (dont want to commit to dead 
> end/dead/dying
> > software)
> > 2. does continous backups.
> > 3. backup atleast last 3 versions of a file/folder.
> > 4. backup to network drive.
> > 5. backup other connected PCs, Macs and Unix hosts.
> > 6. backup my complete LAMP ubuntu server with other modules/apps 
> installed.
> > (so that with one restore operation I can get my crashed server back 
> up to
> > a working status).
> >
> > kindly suggest the best option out there. command line is fine.
> >
> > ty.
> > Rajeev
> >
> >
>
> -- 
> "A society that will trade a little order for a little freedom will
> lose both, and deserve neither."
>   -- Thomas Jefferson
>
>
>
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