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Further to my last post about backups, it looks like someone has written the backup tool that I wanted to exist:
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
except possibly the use of "tar" as a container.
Thoughts?
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
- All cleverness is on the client - the server can be a dumb store like Amazon S3
- Backups are therefore initiated on the client - good for sometimes-on machines
- Backups can be encrypted and signed with GPG
- It supports incremental backups of large files, using rdiff "signature files"
- All in Python, appears quite new
Thoughts?
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Date: 2008-11-07 05:05 pm (UTC)"Duplicity may require lots of temp space sometimes, depending on the size of the volumes created..."
I'm guessing that you could arrange to have that remotely, albeit at a cost in time and possibly money.
But I know how every OS I have ever run behaves when its file systems approach or reach fullness. (Ubuntu has improved greatly, for example.) Having a reasonable speed net connection combined with no quota doesn't help. It is, in part, an addiction: there is so much good stuff out there, and I wants it my precious...
This has been one of the reasons I like what I have for Windows - it uses a delightfully small amount of local disk space.