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Archives for: June 2009

06/10/09

RSnapshot Linux Backup Tool

05:42:24 pm by guy, Categories: Linux, NAS , Tags: backup, nas, rsnapshot

I blogged the other day about having setup a Xubuntu/Ubuntu machine to backup my FreeNAS based NAS server. Probably my favorite new tool is RSnapshot. RSnapshot is a script that uses rsync to create snapshot based backups. Snapshot backups are a backu… more »

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06/05/09

Backup to USB drive under Ubuntu - NTFS vs. EXT3

11:45:55 pm by guy, Categories: Linux, NAS , Tags: backup, ext3, linux, nas, ntfs, ubuntu, usb

I had an interesting experience with Linux filesystem performace today. I had a USB drive that I was using to backup about 45 gig of data. The drive had previously been formatted NTFS and since Linux recognized it I tried to use it for the backup drive… more »

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Setting up a Ubuntu NAS to backup my FreeNAS server

11:32:04 pm by guy, Categories: Linux, NAS , Tags: backup, freenas, linux, nas, ubuntu, xubuntu

I've had a recent goal of getting a NAS up and running to properly backup all the accumulating data our family generates. Pictures, Video, and Windows PC Backups are the primary goal for proper backup. Linux is the obvious solution for my implementatio… more »

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