<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Tyler,<br><br>I really appreciate the gentleness of responding to the both questions.<br><br><div><span>I realized that a complete snapshot of the system </span><span><span>(my requirement #6)</span>, 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).<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>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).<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>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.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div>with kind regards.</div><div>Rajeev<br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div
style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tyler J. Wagner <tyler@tolaris.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Rajeev Prasad <rp.neuli@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> ubuntuserver <ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com>; Ubuntu technical support not for general discussions <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, February 20, 2013 5:00 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: rdiff-backup is it best openSource continous backup solution?<br> </font> </div> <br>
I saw your post to the BackupPC user list. I prefer BackupPC, but it's not<br>ideal for bare-metal restore. It's ideal for "whoops, undelete", and as<br>poor-man's version control. It can be used for bare-metal restore as well,<br>but I recommend installing a base OS from the install media, then restoring<br>over that using BackupPC_tarCreate at the CLI. If you want to continue this<br>discussion, please take it to the BackupPC user list.<br><br>Otherwise, rdiff-backup is great, supported, and works fine. Rsync + diff,<br>what's not to love?<br><br>I personally use rsync to a LUKS-encrypted removable drive once a month or<br>so, plus BackupPC to get the dailies. I use BackupPC at home and at my<br>company, where we have ~70 Linux servers and workstations, and 5 Windows<br>PCs, all safely backed up for the past 3 months, to just 4 TB.<br><br>Regards,<br>Tyler<br><br>On 2013-02-20 20:08, Rajeev Prasad wrote:<br>> Gurus,<br>> <br>> need words of
wisdom adn experiecne on backup solution for my ub server<br>> 1204 LTS<br>> <br>> a quick seacrh produced many results<br>> <<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem</a>> and this continous<br>> backup solution(rdiff-backup <<a href="http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/" target="_blank">http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/</a>>).<br>> <br>> is rdiff-backup currently managed?<br>> <br>> need something which:<br>> <br>> 1. actively managed/devloped. (dont want to commit to dead end/dead/dying<br>> software)<br>> 2. does continous backups.<br>> 3. backup atleast last 3 versions of a file/folder.<br>> 4. backup to network drive.<br>> 5. backup other connected PCs, Macs and Unix hosts.<br>> 6. backup my complete LAMP ubuntu server with other modules/apps installed.<br>> (so that with one restore operation I
can get my crashed server back up to<br>> a working status).<br>> <br>> kindly suggest the best option out there. command line is fine.<br>> <br>> ty.<br>> Rajeev<br>> <br>> <br><br>-- <br>"A society that will trade a little order for a little freedom will<br>lose both, and deserve neither."<br> -- Thomas Jefferson<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>