[kwlug-disc] Backup and Recovery in the 21st Century

[Andrew Kohlsmith (Mailing List Account)]

On January 8, 2010 02:01:31 pm Chris Irwin wrote:
> I'm currently thinking about buying a few 2TB disks to use as my physical
> media and swap them every week, then something like BackupPC, rsync, or
> rdiff-backup to dump onto whatever disk is currently mounted, possibly
> giving me nightlies within that week.

I'm using duplicity; it's a python + gnupg + your choice of backend backup 
designed primarily to back up to remote sites (rsync, ssh, S9, DAV, gmail, you 
name it).

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

I am VERY happy with it. I back up to a local directory and then rsync that to 
a few different places.

-A.