Good Backup System/Software?

dcj123 · 2011-11-09 20:43:42

Hello,

I brought a 3 TB desktop drive to backup my file server with an internal drive of the same size and was wondering what kind of filesystem or software you guys recommended for a backup? The internal drive is ext4 and has about 1.8 TB used; I am only looking to backup the home folder but I do plan on updating the backup every month. I am neutral to the idea of of achieving the data first as long as it doesn't take to long. Really the only two features I need is a password protected drive (encryption?) and a stable filesystem (if ext4 is not stable enough).

Suggestions?

fukawi2 · 2011-11-09 22:27:32

I've always enjoyed "dar" for situations like you've described.
http://dar.linux.free.fr/

sitquietly · 2011-11-09 23:02:54

backintime, or backintime-kde4, serves me well for that kind of backup. It allows me to get a daily, weekly, monthly snapshot of my home directory on an internal 1TB drive onto an external TB drive so that I can retrieve anything that I had in my filesystem at a previous date. It has been reliable and very useful for me. Beside my home directory I use it to keep a daily snapshot of my installed arch packages so that I can drop back to any prior version. It was a lifesaver on a couple of occasions.

dcj123 · 2011-11-10 03:28:01

sitquietly wrote:

backintime, or backintime-kde4, serves me well for that kind of backup. It allows me to get a daily, weekly, monthly snapshot of my home directory on an internal 1TB drive onto an external TB drive so that I can retrieve anything that I had in my filesystem at a previous date. It has been reliable and very useful for me. Beside my home directory I use it to keep a daily snapshot of my installed arch packages so that I can drop back to any prior version. It was a lifesaver on a couple of occasions.

Yes backintime could work for me thanks. Can you post a how to or link explaining how I could use that with encryption if possible?

I am assuming ext4 is a fine file system for a backup, I don't need windows compatibility so.

Vamp898 · 2011-11-23 18:05:28

I use the Application "BASH" from the GNU Operating System in combination with a Cron-Job. Works very fine.

fukawi2 · 2011-11-23 22:01:26

Vamp898 wrote:

I use the Application "BASH" from the GNU Operating System in combination with a Cron-Job. Works very fine.

Really? And exactly how do you backup with only "BASH" and cron?

Last edited by fukawi2 (2011-11-23 22:01:41)

Rezero · 2011-11-26 16:49:52

I like Areca Backup. You can run incremental and differential backups, compress, encrypt, start a backup or do a recovery from the command line (if you want to use cron).
As far as protecting the drive, you might want to look at using LUKS with dm-crypt. Ext4 is always a good choice, but I use JFS on two encrypted external drives and I've had no problems. It seems to perform a bit faster too, but ymmv.

Last edited by Rezero (2011-11-26 16:51:12)

Vamp898 · 2011-11-26 17:57:47

fukawi2 wrote:

Vamp898 wrote:
I use the Application "BASH" from the GNU Operating System in combination with a Cron-Job. Works very fine.
Really? And exactly how do you backup with only "BASH" and cron?

hmm you´re right.

I also use Tar, sometimes dd (depending on what to backup), gzip, bzip, xz-utils and so on

Wintervenom · 2011-11-26 18:24:25

By disk:
https://github.com/Wintervenom/Scripts/ … kup-system

By network:
https://github.com/Wintervenom/Scripts/ … kup/backup

Last edited by Wintervenom (2011-11-26 18:25:53)

Ansikt · 2011-11-29 05:24:47

I suggest Amanda Backup. Cross-platform, smart scheduling, and depends on nice, stable tools to get the job done.

skunktrader · 2011-11-29 05:34:29

rdiff-backup

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