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Simplifying backups (Linux.com)

[Posted November 28, 2005 by cook]

Nathan Willis reviews sbackup, a Google Summer of Code project that aims to simplify the backup procedure. Currently, sbackup copies backup information to local or remote filesystems, support for removable media is being worked on. "Most computer users don't make use of a system backup tool until after they suffer the misfortunes of a hard drive crash without one. But even then, many find backup software too complicated to configure, and there seems to be little in between creating CD or DVD archives by hand and overpowered network backup systems designed for the enterprise. The Simple Backup Suite (sbackup) is a tool for configuring regular backups of system data and simplifying full and partial recoveries."

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Posted Nov 29, 2005 15:37 UTC (Tue) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link]

In the past 3 years I have had 3 hard disk crashes and a RAM failure causing FS damage.

I use rsync to make backups, but it's not good enough against FS corruption.
I've been pinpointed to a tool called flx (http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/11/26/7) that could help in that case.

Still I have to define a strategy that not only protects me against problems, but let me recover fast. I am back again, I haven't recovered completely my data (most of it is there) but it took me a full day and I had a good backup... I feel the pain for those not prepared!