Showing posts with label backup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label backup. Show all posts

2009-04-01

Suggestion for personal backup solution

So, I bought this 1TB disk to backup mine (1x750GB + 1x75GB). Now what I need to find is a backup solution to use it.

What I'm looking for is not a damn complex program, with servers+clients+daemons+agents+satellites (it's just for my box), but something that allows me to:
  • have full + incremental backups;
  • easy recover / exploration of the backups;
  • allows different policies for different filesystems (for /home I want a retention policy of 1 year, while for /media 1 month is more than enough);
  • efficiently store big files (like films, big archives, etc);
  • it should recognize when a file is moved from a location to another, and avoid the del+cp again;
  • possibly start when the external disk is connected, or only if it's there;
  • possibly a nice gui/html frontend to allow for easy administration but NOT to schedule backup (it must run as deamon).
Ok, they are a lot or requirements, almost in importance order.

What do you have to suggest to me about it?

I , by myself, am considering backuppc, amanda and bacula, while the latter seems a lot complex.

I wait for your reply :)