backup solution

[ayn]

How do you guys backup the stuff on your servers?

I could write a script and run it as a cronjob to update tarfiles and to transfer it somewhere else, but that would waste quite a bit of bandwidth and I would need another server with A LOT of space... :)

--Andrew

[zal]

I used to do a nightly rsync to keep a local disk in sync with my remote host.

Now I use rdiff-backup, which is like rsync but it also keeps past deltas so I can rollback and recover old files when the need arises (and it has). It took a day or so to setup just right, but the rdiff-backup solution has been chugging along nightly for ~9months without problems.