| LeRoy on 26 Jul 2010 12:14:41 -0700 |
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On 07/26/2010 02:16 PM, Conor Schaefer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Brian Vagnoni <bvagnoni@v-system.net > <mailto:bvagnoni@v-system.net>> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lee Marzke > > If you have other household > > members how > > do you ensure the backups are done ? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Tie them to a chair, and with a dentist drill in hand, ask them "is > it safe...?" > > No....that isn't how most folks do it? > > IMHO, I loathe all backup solutions equally. My best advice, use the > the one you hate the least. > > > I really hate to be this guy in the thread, but what's wrong with rsync? > On computers I set up for family members, I create a cronjob that SSHs > into the home server and drops it into a /dir/dir/backup/user. > Authentication is based on a 4096-bit RSA key, so no user intervention > is needed. For those hosting remotely, Duplicity seems like an excellent > solution, and has been brought up multiple times on this list. > > The problem is that it's not technically versioned, but by using a > script that inserts a "date" string into the dirnames within the > backup/user/ folder, you can then use a "cleanup" cronjob on the server > to make sure that, say, only the most recent five backups are kept. > Encryption is not a problem with family stuff, of course, so I don't > bother to set Duplicity up on their machines. > Many moons ago I wrote a bash script to do my backups. The backup is a tar based backup and dump for the databases and for security I encrypt it with GnuPG and finally create a cd/dvd iso image that can be rsync'd to remote box. Since many of us use various services like unix shell, or tektonic the encryption of any backup is essential. I made a half baked deb file which includes 2 man pages a default config file and the sbin program. You have to hand edit the config file on your own. -- Rev. LeRoy D. Cressy mailto:leroy@lrcressy.com /\_/\ http://lrcressy.com ( o.o ) Phone: 215-535-4037 > ^ < Cell: 267-307-3527 gpg fingerprint: 62DE 6CAB CEE1 B1B3 359A 81D8 3FEF E6DA 8501 AFEA For info on enigmail: http://lrcressy.com/linux/mozilla.pdf For info on gpg: http://www.gnupg.org/ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6) Attachment:
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