What Linux backup tools do people use? Currently I'm making do with a bash script that's just a wrapper around rsync, but it'd be nice to have something a little more powerful, especially with the option to back up things to glacier, etc.
This is my daily crontab: http://pastie.org/8982530
Total size Compressed size
All archives 3.7 GB 1.5 GB
mysqldump -u mysql db | ssh 1234@usw-s001.rsync.net \ and this:
ssh user@rsync.net s3cmd get s3://rsynctest/mscdex.exe
ssh user@rsync.net "git clone git://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git freebsd"
Next year, with more time, I'll try and add something there!
For your purposes, it would be fine to post something that works on Ubuntu as long as you can verify that it's not Ubuntu-only (if it's open source and works on at least two distros, chances are it works on any distro)[0].
[0] Heck, even most things that are made for Ubuntu work on other distros with minimal modification - it's just a matter of convenience.
Backups go to a local machine with a three drive linux software raid-5 array.
Occasional offsite sync to another remote Linux box.
http://skeptu.com/online-backup-service+has-client:linux-app...
I have a folder in one of my buckets, for example, that I call "archive". I put in there anything I want to store on Glacier long-time. With my lifecycle settings, objects in that folder are automatically moved to Glacier after one day.