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- badwithcomputer, on 10/12/2008, -1/+36Doc, you're telling me you built a TIME MACHINE...out of a Leopard?
- DeathJux, on 10/12/2008, -1/+29rsync
- IphtashuFitz, on 10/12/2008, -0/+12If you want a decent linux/unix based one that uses rsync check out rsnapshot : http://www.rsnapshot.org No fancy GUI or anything, but it essentially lets you do what the Mac "Time Machine" does, taking differential snapshots on hourly, daily, weekly, etc. periods. I use it on a few linux boxes and it's always worked like a charm.
- doshindude, on 10/12/2008, -0/+11No Drivermax? No DriveImage XML? They're free...
- Ebel3003, on 10/12/2008, -0/+9I was disappointed to not see rsync on the list.
- inactive, on 10/12/2008, -3/+10Good Stuff... I always use some backup software.
- basye, on 10/12/2008, -4/+11No CarbonCopyCloner for Mac? That one is rock solid for bootable backups, has never let me down.
The unpaid version of SuperDuper is awesome as well, but I paid for the scheduled backup version years ago and it's always been dependable.
Backing up Macs is far easier than backing up Windows, btw. - jggube, on 10/12/2008, -0/+7I've had great luck with Comodo Backup.
- TokenBlack, on 10/13/2008, -0/+7You know what he means, don't try to be clever for diggs.
- manova, on 10/12/2008, -3/+10You know, windows comes with a backup program that does work.
- Defiant001, on 10/12/2008, -1/+7Good list. I usually just drag and drop files to external hard drives though, I've never found a need to have a program do it for me. My backup is very simple as I prefer not to make disc images with windows on them, it encourages me to reinstall as well which isn't a bad thing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2008, -1/+7the biggest waste of resources: anti virus
- centran, on 10/13/2008, -0/+5but then what if you want incremental backups so you can "undelete" or go back to something someone deleted yesterday or last week? Then you start to need to go into the script realm. Then that script probably would make copies of changes but it would be smarter to do differential backups of the incremental.
That is what rdiff-backup basically does. I am glad I found it becuase I was looking into bacula but that seemed too complicated for my purposes. rdiff-backup is as simple as rdiff-back source destination
It can backup over a network by putting user@host::/dest-dir but I have two backups. One on the same harddrive and one offsite.
When I backup offsite I use rsync to copy the rdiff-backup dir(so I don't end up with increments of increments) - chedabob, on 10/12/2008, -0/+5Where's Mozyhome? Or Syncback?
- joffnz, on 10/13/2008, -0/+5Depends on your needs. If you don't need high-availability/failover (or don't mind if you lose data if you have to go back to an old backup) then just a script to do a mysqldump once a day is fine.
MySQL "Clustering" is done with replication. Unless you're thinking of using the in-memory NDB cluster table type... in which case your needs are probably very specific. I tried using it for a H/A project a while back and it was just not stable or reliable enough for production use. - inactive, on 10/13/2008, -2/+7Mac users, I'm glad you read the post...But srsly...Time Machine? It's bundled with your Mac, right? My aim was to expose people to some actual downloadable apps, not compare which OS ships with which backup app.
- urpwnd, on 10/12/2008, -1/+6the only backup most people will EVER need, especially considering it runs on everything under the sun.
- gdonald, on 10/12/2008, -1/+6rsync and tar are all you really need, anything else is baggage.
- FreddieD, on 10/13/2008, -0/+5Ah, the monthly discussion of backup solutions. I'm a big fan of rdiff-backup, either for linux or windows with Cygwin. It's open source, it's wicked easy and it's not going anywhere.
See you guys next month when this subject comes up again. - cjvino, on 10/12/2008, -1/+6I agree. CCC paired with a good external Firewire (or SATA if you have a MBPro or Mac Pro) drive is great way to keep a complete, bootable backup of your Macintosh.
- DeathJux, on 10/13/2008, -0/+4sudo rsync -vv -a -E /source /destination
Works great for me, plus I can see pretty words scrolling by. - EricDraven, on 10/13/2008, -0/+4I second DriveImage XML, very good program..
- centran, on 10/13/2008, -0/+4a couple of the programs they listed use rsync.
rsync is great but it is best used in another program or in a script(which is basically a program).
The program I use that uses the rsync library file is rdiff-backup. - misterjangles, on 10/13/2008, -0/+4you might check out SyncToy or something at least, which is just like copying to an external drive, only it doesn't copy unchanged files & you can create schedules tasks.
the problem with manually backing up is that your hard drive has the uncanny ability to detect just when you've slacked off for a week or two - that's when it will decide to take a dump on you! - carterx, on 10/13/2008, -0/+4For Mac's, there are a number of free alternatives for backing up needed files that are not mentioned in this list.
As mentioned above, Apple's Time Machine is a great utility that comes built into OS X Leopard.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.h ...
Here are a few others with links:
SuperDuper
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperD ...
FileSync
http://www.designersdomain.com/filesync/index.html
iBackup
http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/downloads.html
Carbon Copy Cloner
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Lacie SilverKeeper
http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/ - xptweakerntn, on 10/12/2008, -0/+4Seems there's enough cloning going around here already.
(Comments) - emer, on 10/13/2008, -1/+5the thing to remember is RAID is not backup, its only fault tolerance.
You won't be covered in cases of
-partition/file corruption
-accidental deletion
-theft - jakatak, on 10/13/2008, -0/+4I sure hope five more people mention Time Machine, since no one reads any other posts but their own.
- OneManArmy, on 10/12/2008, -1/+5wow, finally an actually useful submission. *****, im tired of all this mcain palain *****...we get it already, both are retards!
- Angostura, on 10/12/2008, -1/+5For my Mac, I use a combo of Time Machine and Mozy.
- wopbobaloobop, on 10/13/2008, -0/+4Doesn't Ghost do that?
- inactive, on 10/13/2008, -0/+3or, ya know, just buy a second hard drive and create a RAID array
- seenxu, on 10/13/2008, -0/+3but I heard some negative feedbacks while using mozy.com.
backup there is fine, but restore your files sometimes cause headache problem. and you have to wait before your restore, because they have to make it available to you, which sounds a little bit unconvinent. and the other reason i can't choose mozy.com is, they don't support linux!!! - HonestAbe, on 10/13/2008, -0/+3For Linux:
http://sbackup.wiki.sourceforge.net/ - RicktheBrick, on 10/13/2008, -0/+3I want a backup program that will make a bootable dvd/cd and several more disk which contain the rest of one's data. If the hard drive should fail than all one should have to do is to buy another hard drive and install it and than boot from the first dvd and than restore all of the rest of the hard drive. If the operating system and all of one's programs work than I would consider backing up. I do not think one can back up a hard drive if one boots from that hard drive so it would have to be on a bootable disk to start with. Backing up is easy it is restoring that is hard since one must be able to restore the operating system just to run the backup and restore program which must be backed up too so one can easily restore it too.
- jonespr, on 10/13/2008, -0/+3Thanks, maybe I should start making backups sometimes... it would be a disaster if my work disappeared..
- canton7, on 10/12/2008, -0/+2Unison, although not really intended as a backup program (more synchronisation) does a fantastic job for me! That said, this is a good list
- Pixelpaws, on 10/12/2008, -3/+5SyncToy. One of the few programs from Microsoft that actually works.
- inactive, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2True Image is not a cloning app. It can backup an entire partition or specific folders.
- dasamps, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2Just to spite this comment.
- drex8, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2Why is that most external drives always comes with usb but rarely Firewire. Maybe USB 2.0 is theoritically faster than Firewire 400 but I've always seen backups are faster using Firewire.
Drives with eSATA commection blows these out of the water though. - DankBuddha, on 10/12/2008, -2/+4not much of a list, what about PING or even Ghost?
- misterjangles, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2MS has a free util called SyncToy 2.0 which is actually nice if you prefer your backups to be regular file copies - rather than a single archive file like the built-in windows backup.
The only thing about syncing rather than archiving is that it doesn't preserve multiple versions. You have a backup, but you can't go back and grab a specific version of a file from a specific date. - homercles337, on 10/12/2008, -2/+4It certainly does, but i like a transparent version that just copies files to a new location. Plus the windows backup is awfully slow. I do use it as a back up to my back up though.
- darkmagician777, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2I love COMODO firewall.
Could be a little more automatic for known programs though. Solid firewall. Great backup list. totally worth people look for Alternatives to Ghost and Acronis - Aurabolt, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2Best system - Windows image (after fresh reformat, and drivers, basic programs) with Acronis, saved on my fileserver.. and of course my fileserver has all my stuff.
OS drive = disposable, all my data = not redundant - AaronGNP, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2SyncBack has saved me a few times.
- andycr512, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2I'm a fan of rdiff-backup. It saves all past backup versions (like Time Machine), etc. Sadly, it's Linux-only.
- mahadiga, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2What is the best way to back up a MySQL database? Replication or Cluster?
- basye, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2Time Machine wasn't a very reliable backup until the most previous 10.5 revision. Nothing beats a cloned disc program, either.
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