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Eliseo: /* Backup Software */

2012-02-14T17:49:28Z

Backup Software

2012-02-02T22:28:09Z

Clean up some of your used space

2012-02-02T22:27:50Z

IRIDIA Backup System

2012-02-02T22:27:20Z

Clean up some of your used space

2012-02-02T22:25:01Z

Clean up some of your used space

2012-02-02T22:24:35Z

Clean up some of your used space

2012-02-02T22:23:44Z

IRIDIA Backup System

2011-11-16T16:25:26Z

rdiff-backup

2009-06-18T13:59:45Z

rdiff-backup

2009-04-24T14:59:16Z

rdiff-backup

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:49, 14 February 2012
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	If you know unison, note that you can also use that for your personal backups. Installed version is 2.27.57. For documentation look here http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/.		If you know unison, note that you can also use that for your personal backups. Installed version is 2.27.57. For documentation look here http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/.
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		+	== Info for Administrators ==
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		+	Here you find some [[Information for administrators]].

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   Pin-Priority: 1001
-==== Clean up some of your used space ====
+===== Clean up some of your used space =====
 Imagining that you don't need the entire history of your backup, you can use rdiff to delete files that are older than a specified amount of time.
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 Please use once in a while
 === Unison ===

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 There is an old automated backup system that is still in place, but no longer supported.  It was written by Halva and uses rdiff-backup. A script pulls the contents of the user's home directory onto the backup server.  Instructions here: [[Old Backup System (Halva's rdiff system)]]. Good luck.
 == Server Backup ==
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   Pin: version 1.1.17-1
   Pin-Priority: 1001
 === Unison ===

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 There is an old automated backup system that is still in place, but no longer supported.  It was written by Halva and uses rdiff-backup. A script pulls the contents of the user's home directory onto the backup server.  Instructions here: [[Old Backup System (Halva's rdiff system)]]. Good luck.
-=== Clean up some of your used space ===
+==== Clean up some of your used space ====
 Imagining that you don't need the entire history of your backup, you can use rdiff to delete files that are older than a specified amount of time.

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 Imagining that you don't need the entire history of your backup, you can use rdiff to delete files that are older than a specified amount of time.
-  /usr/bin/rdiff-backup -v0 --force --remove-older-than 3W <fallopiususername>@fallopius::/home/<fallopiususername>/backup/<localusername>@shannon.ulb.ac.be/
+  /usr/bin/rdiff-backup -v0 --force --remove-older-than 3W <fallopiususername>@fallopius::/home/<fallopiususername>/backup/<localusername>@<localmachine>.ulb.ac.be/
 Please use once in a while

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:23, 2 February 2012
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	There is an old automated backup system that is still in place, but no longer supported. It was written by Halva and uses rdiff-backup. A script pulls the contents of the user's home directory onto the backup server. Instructions here: [[Old Backup System (Halva's rdiff system)]]. Good luck.		There is an old automated backup system that is still in place, but no longer supported. It was written by Halva and uses rdiff-backup. A script pulls the contents of the user's home directory onto the backup server. Instructions here: [[Old Backup System (Halva's rdiff system)]]. Good luck.

		+	=== Clean up some of your used space ===
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		+	Imagining that you don't need the entire history of your backup, you can use rdiff to delete files that are older than a specified amount of time.
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		+	/usr/bin/rdiff-backup -v0 --force --remove-older-than 3W eferrante@fallopius::/home/eferrante/backup/quadseldon@shannon.ulb.ac.be/
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		+	Please use once in a while

	== Server Backup ==		== Server Backup ==

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   $ sudo dpkg -i rdiff-backup_1.1.17-1_jaunty_i386.deb
-In case you use another system, download and install from the source ( http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/images/1/18/Rdiff-backup_1.1.17.orig.tar.gz ). Note that it could not work if your system has a version that is different).
+In case you use another system, download and install from the source ( http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/images/1/18/Rdiff-backup_1.1.17.orig.tar.gz or http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.1.17.tar.gz). Note that it could not work if your system has a version that is different).
 Add the following lines to "/etc/apt/preferences" in order to prevent apt to install another version of rdiff-backup:

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   $ wget http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~abrutschy/rdiff-backup_1.1.17-1_etch_i386.deb
-  $ dpkg -i rdiff-backup_1.1.17-1_etch_i386.deb
+  $ sudo dpkg -i rdiff-backup_1.1.17-1_etch_i386.deb
 and for Ubuntu Intrepid/Debian Lenny:
   $ wget http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~abrutschy/rdiff-backup_1.1.17-1_lenny_intrepid_i386.deb
-  $ dpkg -i rdiff-backup_1.1.17-1_lenny_intrepid_i386.deb
+  $ sudo dpkg -i rdiff-backup_1.1.17-1_lenny_intrepid_i386.deb
 and for Ubuntu Jaunty:
   $ wget http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~abrutschy/rdiff-backup_1.1.17-1_jaunty_i386.deb
-  $ dpkg -i rdiff-backup_1.1.17-1_jaunty_i386.deb
+  $ sudo dpkg -i rdiff-backup_1.1.17-1_jaunty_i386.deb
 In case you use another system, download and install from the source ( http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/images/1/18/Rdiff-backup_1.1.17.orig.tar.gz ). Note that it could not work if your system has a version that is different).