Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have two spare disks on two separate machines, and I thought I would
> use them as backup locations for the other machines on the network (all
> Debian machines and one Windows 2000). I have been looking at the Mondo
> and backuppc packages from Debian. Has anyone used either of these
> packages? Can anyone recommend one over the other? Do you have
> recommendations for other backup packages?
>
> I also wanted to mirror the two disks. Is rsync the best tool, or is
> there a better tool to do this?
I have used backuppc and was pretty pleased with it ... it even ran for
months effortlessly after I left that job. Its probably dead now for
some reason or another .... but who knows.
As far as your particular scenario rsync would be good if your backup
are always going to go in one direction (that is there is one that is a
source and one that is always a destination).
But if you have two disks (or directories) that both get written to I
suggest that you check out unison. It is excellent for mirroring
between two locations that will get written to and keeping them in sync.
It allows you to manually resolve collisions. And it is cross platform.
I use it to sync my /home/godber/ between my home and work machines. So
I run it twice a day ... once I get to work and once I come back home
from work.
Austin
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