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Cooking with Linux - Backing Up to the Clouds

Issue 180

From Issue #180
April 2009

Mar 31, 2009  By Marcel Gagné
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Enough with the cloud nonsense. Sure, you can buy in to some big commercial cloud, but odds are you've already got one of your own. Why not take advantage of it and get yourself backed up safely?

Resources

GAdmin-Rsync: gadmintools.flippedweb.com

grsync: www.opbyte.it/grsync

rsync: rsync.samba.org

Marcel's Web Site: www.marcelgagne.com

Cooking with Linux: www.cookingwithlinux.com

WFTL Bytes!: wftlbytes.com

Marcel Gagné is an award-winning writer living in Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of the Moving to Linux series of books from Addison-Wesley. Marcel is also a pilot, a past Top-40 disc jockey, writes science fiction and fantasy, and folds a mean Origami T-Rex. He can be reached via e-mail at marcel@marcelgagne.com. You can discover lots of other things (including great Wine links) from his Web sites at www.marcelgagne.com and www.cookingwithlinux.com.

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A funny kind of cloud

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Submitted by John H (not verified) on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 08:14.

This is a nice cookbook for backing up with rsync, but your "cloud" seems to be a single server. If the files aren't going to a highly redundant cluster of nodes, ideally spread across multiple buildings (better: cities; better: countries), I don't think I could call it a cloud.

I'd be really interested in hearing about an open source rsync service that backends on Hadoop or CouchDB or similar.

rsnapshot

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:25.

I use rsnapshot to automate backing up to a USB external drive. Symbolic links keep the size of each backup set to the minimum needed for changed files.

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