"Last week, I told you about my NAS purchase, and my desire to explore desktop applications for backing up your Ubuntu computer. From the administrative interface of my Buffalo NAS, I created a network share that I could access with the different systems in my office. It's an SMB share so that it can also be accessed from Windows if needs arise. I then permanently mount those shares as network file systems (though not NFS) on my Kubuntu Karmic system. This I do from the command line
Windows/Mac/Linux: Inspired by our post on Linux backup utility Back in Time, but finding it lacking encryption and network powers, Rob Oakes wrote his own Python-based utility to back up Windows, Mac, or Linux machines across local machines or networks.
Slony-I is a "master to multiple slaves" replication system supporting cascading (e.g. - a node can feed another node which feeds another node...) and failover.
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rsync hfsmode is a patch for rsync to enable recognition of Mac OS X HFS resource forks and Finder metadata, and to copy them to a remote filesystem. The destination system can be any OS and filesystem that supports rsync, so you can use rsync to archive Mac OS X files to servers running Linux, Solaris, et cetera.
Description: RetrospeKt is my attempt to make working with backups easier and more intuitive. It is inspired by Apple's "Time machine" backup system and is based on rsnapshot backup script.
The xen-vm-autosnapshot.py script has been updated with an important new option: –snapshot-tag. I still can’t believe I made such a silly oversight, but previous versions of this script had no way of differentiating between snapshots created automatically and those that were created manually. So if you happened to have some old manual snapshots lying around, the snapshot-rotate routine would have rotated them along with all the rest.