Does anyone know of any good free hard drive backup software? Ghost isn't free, and all I could find is this shitty thing that can only do a sector-by-sector backup because it doesn't understand NTFS, end result being that I've got a 160 GB hard disk image for a disk whose used space is under three gigs. Not easy to store away for backup.
So, TIA
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Anonymous2007-11-27 14:06
>type a hundred asinine commands
>rather discuss how you WOULD do it with open source rubbish rather than actually do anything
This shit is hilarious.
I have made a script that does full backups once a week, differential backups on each work day and additionally hourly snapshots. The full and differential backups are stored on tapes while the snapshots are disc-to-disc. Snapshots and daily backups are being rotated automatically, I only still have to change the tapes manually (but I'm working to change that).
All of this is done with rsync, cpio and cron. The script has less than 150 lines of shell code and has been running on two infrastructure servers, a mail server and a storage server for a year and a half now.
Mind you that this is not anything to be proud of. I can't even program worth shit. Granted, setting this up took me about two days including testing. But fucking hell, was it ever worth it.