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Author Topic: How Do You Do Your Backups and How Often ?.  (Read 2225 times)

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How Do You Do Your Backups and How Often ?.
« on: November 23, 2011, 10:42:21 PM »
How Do You Do Your Backups ? (if you do them ) and how often.

Do you backup to a CD, USB memory stick, USB hard drive or special dedicated unit.

How often

Do you do it manually or is it an automatic system ?.

Anybody do 'Remote' backups ?.
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Re: How Do You Do Your Backups and How Often ?.
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2011, 11:00:41 PM »
I use an automated backup system which backs up specified directories overnight. I only backup personal data, i.e. the stuff which I can't replace. It's backed up to a NAS device, and every week or so I backup the backups to a USB hard disk. The program I use is one I wrote myself years ago, called backerupper. It's still available on Sourceforge if you're interested, but I'm not in a position to develop it any further.
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Re: How Do You Do Your Backups and How Often ?.
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2011, 11:13:36 PM »
Backups are performed weekly to CDs or DVDs via a self-written script.

All user data plus system configuration data is backed up.
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Re: How Do You Do Your Backups and How Often ?.
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2011, 01:44:46 AM »
Quote from: roseway on November 23, 2011, 11:00:41 PM
I use an automated backup system which backs up specified directories overnight. I only backup personal data, i.e. the stuff which I can't replace. It's backed up to a NAS device, and every week or so I backup the backups to a USB hard disk. The program I use is one I wrote myself years ago, called backerupper. It's still available on Sourceforge if you're interested, but I'm not in a position to develop it any further.

I have downloaded and been testing 'backerupper' and it works well.
Nice program  :)
If I use a test machine as a NAS and lets say my username is 'me' for this example and it's IP is 192.168.0.131
How do I put that as the Destination Directory ?.
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Re: How Do You Do Your Backups and How Often ?.
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2011, 07:39:49 AM »
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If I use a test machine as a NAS and lets say my username is 'me' for this example and it's IP is 192.168.0.131
How do I put that as the Destination Directory ?.

The destination directory has to be mounted before you can make backups to it. How you do this depends on how it's configured. Commercial NAS devices usually present themselves as Windows shares, so for my Buffalo Linkstation I have an entry in fstab like this:

//192.168.1.20/share /mnt/linkstation cifs username="eric",password="**********",noperm,dir_mode=0777,rw 0 0

and then the destination directory in Backerupper is /mnt/linkstation/
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