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Posted by ytz991, 09-01-2008, 09:09 PM i need to backup windows, linux computers to linux computer. i've been backing up only linux so far, using rsync on crucial folders, but this way i still have to waste time by reinstalling os, compiling packages, waste time on qmail, making sure everything works, no libraries problems etc. what do you guys backup and using which software ? do you backup /bin /usr /lib /boot /etc /misc .. too ? or maybe just whole drive & and you keep same types of drives, even when they will likely be outdated when crash happens ? i'm also not sure how to backup windows to linux, i'd prefer not to install Samba. any opinion on bacula.org ? Thank You
Posted by epcmedia, 09-03-2008, 09:39 AM Rsnapshot on linux is great. It is a Perl wrapper for rsync and has a lot of nice features. On windows I use unison. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ There is a GUI (which requires GTK+ and is a headadche, dont bother) and a CLI version. I use the CLI in a batch script to make daily diffs to a linux server via SSH. There is plenty of documentation online about unison and the different methods of using it. As for entire servers, my strategy is to not stry too far from a default Redhat/Centos install. I backup my config files in /etc (apache, email, samba, etc), but all the binaries I ignore. If I lose everything then I can provision a new server in a matter of hours. If you are really concerned with downtime then maybe you should look into virtualization (VMWare, Virtuozzo, etc). Hope that helps, EPCMEDIA
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