Backup Systems

We all know backup is important, but still tend to turn a black eye to it since it requires a set of steps to remember and follow periodically. Here are some ways of automating backups to various mediums.

http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/index.html - Apparently this works under Cygwin as well

http://pycs.net/lateral/stories/26.html - review on rdiff-backup

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/1630234&mode=nested&tid=106

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ - File sync tool for Windows & Linux /

http://folk.uio.no/johnen/bontmia/ - "Backup Over Network To Multiple Incremental Archives" - kind of like rdiff-backup

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - BackupPC

LinuxRAID

Unison, an alternative to rsync: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Using Unison to synchronise your work: http://web.bii.a-star.edu.sg/~francis/Unison/

Offline Files feature of Windows: http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/archive/2004/05/02/124900.aspx

Mondo

Mondo is highly recommended for greating bootable CD/DVD images: http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo

Here's a command to build a set of ISOs:

mondoarchive -i -E "/root/images/" -N -d /root/images/set1 -2 -O

FVLUG Presentation

Alan presented rdiff-backup to FVLUG in March, 2004: http://arcterex.net/fvlug/rdiff-backup.pdf

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