[SLL] How do I back up LVM Volumes to Tape...?

[Rob Smith]

On Dec 6, 2007 9:00 PM, Chuck Wolber <chuckw at quantumlinux.com> wrote:
> Most backups these days are going to online disk based backup (where
> "online" doesn't mean "Internet"). A quick and dirty solution is to
> replace your incredibly expensive tape drive with a hot-swap drive bay and
> just backup to cheap harddrives. Restoration is a snap (just copy files)
> and incremental backups are just a "cp -al" and rsync away. Take the
> harddrives to the safe deposit box once a week. Since you can probably fit
> hundreds of incremental backups to a 1TB drive given that your source
> array is only 200GB, you only need a few drives to ensure you have good
> offsite backups.

rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/) makes this a breeze to do.
Supports really easy configuration for local and remote servers (via
rsync/ssh or other methods).

I highly recommend it.

~Rob