Linux Backup on external USB dirve

[chkmg]

Hi, I need to know if there is any software that enables Linux servers to backup on external USB hard drives? I want to install it on Debian linux. I know Veritas has some agent that enables backing up linux servers' data but I want something that installs on Debian itself, thanks in advance!

Regards

 

[dsryan]

G'day,

have you tried searching at

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.en-gb.html#search_packages

I got 9 results for 'backup'

As long as the USB drives are mounted somewhere on your file system, then there should be no problem backing up to them.

My 2c worth, Dave.

 

[zeland]

How elaborate a backup scheme do you need? Backup meaning getting data from one media to another for safe keeping. You could use anything from cp, dd, rsync, etc to meet those needs.


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[ericbrunson]

rsnapshot is *awesome*, everyone should check it out.

 

[chkmg]

Thanks guys, what I need is something that would run according to a schedule and is capable of doing incremental backups too. I did find some good info at the link dsryan has pasted plus I will definitley look into rsnapshot too.

Regards,
Chkmg

 

[jstreich]

Try Bacula... It works great for writing directly to tape drives, or to plain files. You'd use this as the latter. Don't know if there is a debian package for it.

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[ericbrunson]

rsnapshot will allow you to back up and keep incrementals, it's fast and uses as much disk as 1 full backup plus deltas.

I currently snapshot my production systems every 4 hours, I keep 6 of those 4-hourly snaps, 7 daily, 4 weekly and 6 monthly. Once the first backup was made subsequent snapshots take about 30 seconds on my Athlon 1700+ backing up about 4 gigs.

The docs have a nice little NFS trick for giving users read-only access to their snapshots.