Backup Script for Linux server

Can anyone recommend a good backup script. I have two HDs and I want to use the second as a backup.

rsync - http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

Arkeia for me, although that thing is so damn expensive.

Originally posted by Dedicated
Backup Script for Linux server

Can anyone recommend a good backup script. I have two HDs and I want to use the second as a backup.

If you are running CPanel you can find a backup script at /scripts/backup.

Just use cp.

Check out Reoback.

http://reoback.penguinsoup.org

Originally posted by Dedicated
Backup Script for Linux server

Can anyone recommend a good backup script. I have two HDs and I want to use the second as a backup.

rdiff-backup, http://www.stanford.edu/~bescoto/rdiff-backup/

Pros:

- secure over network (use SSH), but it will work just fine for second drive backup

- store version history of backed up files but very efficient in storing files, only the differences between two backup runs are stored

- bandwidth efficient, will only transmit the differences between the current file and the last backed up version

edit: should say pros instead of cons, I was going to add cons, but I was too lazy :(

I have a couple of small scripts that take care of my backup for now. Hopefully as my sites become more popular, I'll have to arrange for a more powerful backup mechanism. For now however, here is what I've got...

To backup a web site, I wrote Hindsite (http://web.abumami.com/scripts/download/hindsite.zip). I use this to back up several web sites I have on my ded server. One site is a heavy PHP based site, and the backup file size is about 400K.

To backup mySQL databases, I wrote AMRSSBOSM (http://web.abumami.com/scripts/download/amrssbosm.zip)

Both scripts are very simple, and are well suited to a small operation. We're not talking about full disk backup, RAID, and high tech here. It just gets the job done and keeps me from worrying about my work.