In a previous post, I described how I do Secure rsnapshot backups over the WAN via SSH. While my layout of rsnapshot configuration files, data, and log files is a bit esoteric, I monitor all this with a Nagios check plugin that runs on my backup host. It Assumes that …

Since I moved all of my WAN-facing stuff (mail, web, this blog, svn etc.) to a virtual server with Linode, and just have a desktop at home, it’s no longer practical to use Bacula for backups. Linode manages daily and weekly backups through their backup service, but they …

While I’ve often told mystified people that hosted services - the free ones - aren’t required to backup your data, and you should probably do it yourself, I usually didn’t worry about this very much - all of my web apps are on my own boxes, as well as my …