Useful Backup Tools on *nix

daniel —Wed, 06/08/2011 - 4:15pm

Unison, Rsync, and from earlier this week: AutoMyDbBackup

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Submitted by daniel on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:20pm

rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --recursive --times --links --delete Documents/ example.com:/home/user/docs;

rsync --verbose --progress --stats --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --recursive --times --links --delete example.com:/home/user/pix Pictures/;

rsync --verbose --progress --stats --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --recursive --times --links --delete example.com:/home/user/music Music;

#no need to compress pictures and music, as they are already about as compressed as possible

Submitted by daniel on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 10:47am

The snapshotting backup system comes highly recommended.

daniel —Wed, 08/31/2011 - 12:49am

Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating.

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Martin Reiser

quoted by Nicklaus Wirth, 1995, which spawned "Grove giveth, and Gates taketh away," author unknown, referring to CEOs of Intel and Microsoft