The Blog of Harald

Several webloggers who use “cornerhost”:http://www.cornerhost.com/ found themselves “suddenly relocated”:http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2473 over the weekend (“for the record”:http://cornerhost.blogspot.com/, it wasn’t really cornerhost’s fault).

cornerhost’s policy is that users are responsible for their own backups. Naturally, some people found out that this was true :-)

As part of the ensuing chaos, someone pointed out Mike Rubel’s article “Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync”:http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/.

I’ve been a sysadmin for over 15 years. I’m a *big* fan of backups. (I’m _very_ unhappy that my tape drive is broken right now. :-) I’ve been doing nightly full backups of my servers using rsync for a long time, but the technique Mike uses for incrementals never occured to me (blush). A minor change to a couple of scripts was all it took for me to have a week’s worth of snapshots on the backup hosts. Fabulous!

Thanks, “Mike”:http://www.mikerubel.org/!