Comments on: Easy linux backup with duplicity

By: Sultan

Sultan — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:33:43 +0000

@ripper234: Thanks. I’ll look more into Boxbackup (and Duplicity) and try to remember to post back when I do. It won’t be for a while, though. Very busy these days… .

By: ripper234

ripper234 — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:05:52 +0000

@Sultan – I don’t know, I don’t remember finding boxbackup in my research.
If you try it, please post about your experience.

Duplicity has been doing a great job for us – just be sure not to use s3fs as I wrote above, but rather use the builtin S3 connector – we ran into some perf problems with duplicity on s3fs.

By: Sultan

Sultan — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:32:43 +0000

How does it compare to http://www.boxbackup.org/ (if you happen to have done the comparison during your research). I’m currently looking for a system, too.
Thanks

By: ripper234

ripper234 — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:40:14 +0000

@Ronen – very nice, I missed that flag, it simplifies my life considerably 🙂

By: Ronen

Ronen — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:05:38 +0000

BTW you can tell it to do full after some time:

–full-if-older-than time
Perform a full backup if an incremental backup is requested, but the latest full backup in the collection is older than the given time. See the TIME FORMATS section for more information.

By: Ronen

Ronen — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:23:25 +0000

Yeap Im talking about the desktop version (its installed by default):

https://launchpad.net/deja-dup

It uses duplicity behind the scenes

By: ripper234

ripper234 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:43:10 +0000

@Ronen – what’s the default backup utility? I’m talking about an Ubuntu server on EC2, it doesn’t have the UI sub-system as far as I know.

By: Ronen

Ronen — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:13:49 +0000

I think that the default backup utility in Ubuntu uses that also, point it to an ssh server and thats it,

The Ubuntu UI client does do a full backup once in a while