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my new cheap green backup solution

This is my new backup solution

A sheevaplug computer running debian
And as storage an ICYBOX with a 500G sata disk

you don't get high bandwidths but for a backup storage this rules for home usage

At first I was trying to backup with rsync over ssh with blowfish
But this was to slow, I just get 50mbit
(ssh blowfish encryption was to heavy for this 1,2GHz arm processor)

so I decided to use rsync deamon
My backup is syncing now at 100mbit ;)
(I now rsync is not a backup, but I just want a copy in case of crash)

I also found that pulling the usb plug shuts down the harddisk
so I will check later to unload the usb after the backup has finished and when I got the time
It could save power

Backuppc

Mario,
Correct, rsync is not a backup, but you might want to try backuppc, I'm pretty sure it runs on this device.. It adds compression, pooling, and... backup history! :-)

Great idea on using this device, looks interesting, going to look at it too. :-)

Regards,
Kristof.

  • By Anonymous at 05/27/2010 - 07:26
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backuppc

Thats true, but I'm using the option "--link-dest"

mv dir.0 dir.1 ...
rsync -someoptions / --link-dest=../dir.1 server:backup/dir.0

than rsync creates hardlinks of existing files in the previous directory
so I have very easy incremental backups
that is very easy to configure
example: a backup of 50G with a history of 20 and just using 60G on disk

greets,

  • By mario at 05/28/2010 - 06:34
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