Useful Backup Tools on *nix
daniel Wed, 06/08/2011 - 4:15pm
Unison, Rsync, and from earlier this week: AutoMyDbBackup
Additional info on Rsync:
Wikipedia Article
Simple Tutorial
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daniel Wed, 06/08/2011 - 4:15pm
Unison, Rsync, and from earlier this week: AutoMyDbBackup
Additional info on Rsync:
Wikipedia Article
Simple Tutorial
daniel Wed, 08/31/2011 - 12:49am
Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating.
Martin Reiser
quoted by Nicklaus Wirth, 1995, which spawned "Grove giveth, and Gates taketh away," author unknown, referring to CEOs of Intel and Microsoft
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an example script
Submitted by daniel on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:20pmrsync --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
Dirvish - A snapshot backup system
Submitted by daniel on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 10:47amThe snapshotting backup system comes highly recommended.