After my backup fiasco a couple weeks ago, I figured I should investigate backups, and see what exactly it is in a backup solution that I am looking for.

In reading up on the subject, I understood probably the best way to go about it is to do a base line full backup, and then a set of differentials. I ended up writing a neat little system in strictly bash and base UNIX tools, and it was actually getting pretty useful until I spotted rsnapshot.

Man, that’s one neat little package, and it’s super simple, easy and straight forward to set up.

In the end, I only had to write one ‘custom’ script, which was to backup my svn repositories, and it was off to the races.

If anyone’s interested in the source to my bash-based engine, let me know. It definitely taught me a lot about bash scripting!

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