It’s amazing how many fewer afternoons I seem to spend hacking around on my servers these days. Perhaps I got a life; I certainly got a full-time job. I have however sorted a few long-standing bits and pieces out today…
dnorth.net is now available over IPv6
As are its various satelite sites and www.saintcolumbas.org. Sorry, no, there is no bouncing logo to reward those of you viewing them via such.
A backup system that doesn’t Totally Suck™
I’ve finally retired my creaking “run a shell script to rsync them onto my laptop when I remember (i.e. every six months)” manaul backup system in favour of an encrypted LVM partition on my home server, and rdiff-backup to make nice incremental backups of everything on a nightly basis. The instructions on how to do it are all out there on the interweb, and it’s not too difficult, fortunately. I’m a bit disappointed that backupninja doesn’t support remote rdiff-backup, but I guess I should submit a patch if it bothers me that much…meanwhile, my wrapper script seems to work just fine.
Just figured I’d point out — backupninja uses duplicity for remote backup; which is nicely based on librsync and includes rdiffdir. So far it supports ssh/scp, local file access, rsync, ftp, HSI, WebDAV, and Amazon S3. Kinda wish it supported rackspace cloudspace, maybe *I’ll* have to submit a patch if it bothers me that much…
Ah, fair point, I didn’t realise that capability was there. In my case I like being able to see the backed-up data without having to decompress or decrypt it first – I keep it all on an encrypted drive but think the encryption should be transparent to the backup process. Duplicity also terrifies me slightly as the versions in Debian are a bit out of date and buggy compared to the latest and greatest.