[ubuntu-uk] Backup strategies: [Was Hard drive- Bad sectors]

[Philip Stubbs]

On 19 April 2010 09:10, Paul Morgan-Roach <roachy at roachy.net> wrote:
> Not sure if it's any use to anyone on here, but backuppc (available in the
> repositories) is a very nice solution, as it's a perl based with a nice web
> interface that allows backup using SMB, rsync over SSH, etc.
>
> It handles incremental backups nicely and gives an easy method of restoring
> files and folders as well.  I'm currently using it to backup a handful of
> remote sites to our head office and it's very effective.
>
> Might be worth a look.

That is definitely worth a look. I have been using backup-manager,
also from the repositories. In fact I have been feeling rather smug,
as I finally have sorted out my backup's. Having never been bitten by
a failing HD, I had not formally setup a backup system. Now I make
sure that stuff I am working on is in my Dropbox folder.
backup-manager does nightly incremental backups on my server and
workstation, and weekly full backups. All important data is on the
server. Then I rsync the archives from both machines to a USB hard
disk, that is located in a different building to the server.

I am thinking of changing the USB drive to a much bigger one, and then
coming up with a scheme that avoids massive transfers across the
network each week.

-- 
Philip Stubbs