As I mentioned last month, I picked up a new hard drive to add to my home server. So I now have two internal drives, and one USB external drive attached to the box.

Tonight I added a shell script to cron that runs rsync once a day and backs up my media (i.e. photos, music, videos) and home directory to the USB drive.

building file list ... done sent 146678 bytes received 20 bytes 293396.00 bytes/sec total size is 22042486179 speedup is 150257.58

That’s certainly not the most complex/fancy backup solution, but after considering everything from RAID to Bacula, I decided this was the best way to go. Seems to be working so far.

Backing up from other boxes isn’t a big deal, as I already mount my home directory via Samba and map it as a drive from Windows. So it gets picked up when the home directory backup runs.

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