Workstation Backup Strategies

[Mike]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Joseph Holladay wrote:

> Wow, mondo looks like a great app.  It should really be in core or at least 
> extras.
>
> Joseph Holladay wrote:
>> What tool is the best for backing up a single workstation onto multiple 
>> DVDs.  Ideally incrementally, but I would still do new full backups from 
>> time to time as DVDs are notoriously unreliable.  Many of the backup tools 
>> I have found seem to be meant for networked backups of multiple machines to 
>> HD or tape.  I know I could probably write some kind of script, but I bet a 
>> better coder than I has already solved this problem.

Two thumbs up for mondo!  The combination of mondo and rsnapshot 
(www.rsnapshot.org) has been the best solution for my small time operation 
(and simple mind).  I run a complete mondo archive once a month manually 
and hourly, daily and weekly rsnapshot runs from crontab.