Hello All,
My current back-up process is as follows:
- Via a weekly cron job, a hand written back-up script runs.
- The script uses rsync to copy all changes to an exact copy of the
current system (ignoring some directories).
I have to have another drive setup as a primary partition with the
bootable flag set and to make sure the back-up works, I've got to
disconnect the working drive and plug in the back-up drive and boot off
it.
I've used this process for a while now and it works fairly well. However,
I'd like to look at something using image files/snapshots.
I think someone a while back discussed rsync-snapshot so I'm going to look
it up but I thought I would ask what people use for back-ups.
Ideally I'd like something that offers the following:
- schedules back-ups (otherwise I'll forget) while the system is running
normally
- each back-up creates an exact copy of the drive as a mountable image
file
- a configurable number of back-ups are kept and then the oldest is
overwritten
- command line interface (the servers I run don't have X)
- a recovery live CD for disaster recovery where an image can be
restored to a new drive and then that new drive can be booted.
Is there a tool out there offering these features that someone on the list
has used (restored with). I'll start poking around but I thought I would
get someone's personal recommendation before I start trying things.
Thanks in advance,
Dennis