Comments on: Backup on Linux - with backup2l http://blog.ibao.net/linux/2004/10/10/backup-on-linux-with-backup2l/ A diary of my relationship with linux... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:11:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Sam Snow http://blog.ibao.net/linux/2004/10/10/backup-on-linux-with-backup2l/#comment-37 Sam Snow Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ibao.net/blog/debian/?p=192#comment-37 If you cannot easily access the drive that you wish to store the backup on (the drive is on another computer) you have several options. One is to use a script like above, but mount the remote directory to your local file system. Many ways are available to do this: NFS, Samba, SHFS, etc. Another option (that I have just begun using) is hdup -- <a href="http://www.miek.nl/projects/hdup16/" rel="nofollow">http://www.miek.nl/projects/hdup16/</a> . It can work locally (just like the script above) but it can also work remotely and save the backup on any remote host that you can SSH to. I need to test with another restore, but so far the backups are working quite well. There are Debian packages availible for Testing and Unstable: <a href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=hdup" rel="nofollow">http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=hdup</a> For MySQL backups it is hard to beat automysqlbackup --> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/" rel="nofollow">http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/</a> . My $0.02 Sam If you cannot easily access the drive that you wish to store the backup on (the drive is on another computer) you have several options. One is to use a script like above, but mount the remote directory to your local file system. Many ways are available to do this: NFS, Samba, SHFS, etc.

Another option (that I have just begun using) is hdup — http://www.miek.nl/projects/hdup16/ . It can work locally (just like the script above) but it can also work remotely and save the backup on any remote host that you can SSH to. I need to test with another restore, but so far the backups are working quite well.

There are Debian packages availible for Testing and Unstable:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=hdup

For MySQL backups it is hard to beat automysqlbackup –> http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ .

My $0.02
Sam

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