As title the best way to backup the personal data (all contained in home dir). What is the your favorite method to data backup ? There are other solutions?

rsync has proved pretty useful to me. Since my homedir is small, I usually just make a .tar.gz out of it and upload it to my VPS.

Depends on the size of your data.
tar plus gzip, else rsync for larger amounts with its incremental backup.

I wrote about my backup method on my blog: http://blog.z3bra.org/2014/09/backup-someone.html

TL;DR

• cpio | bzip2
  
• Rotate backups
  
• wrap it in a script
  
• fire it up via cron
  
• export it via rsync (I still need to find somewhere to put my backups)
  

I even get some fancy mails like this afterwards:

For personal backup I use rsync.
I do it every week, backing up almost everything on my computers (It gives a replica, no need to uncompress anything).
It's fast because it only copies the files that differ.
I also use it to update my website from my local directory.
However, if you want to rollback by dates you might prefer the tarball/compress files approach.

We had another thread about backups http://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=726 but it's kind of outdated.

(17-06-2015, 01:57 PM)z3bra Wrote: I wrote about my backup method on my blog: http://blog.z3bra.org/2014/09/backup-someone.html

TL;DR

• cpio | bzip2
  
• Rotate backups
  
• wrap it in a script
  
• fire it up via cron
  
• export it via rsync (I still need to find somewhere to put my backups)
  

I even get some fancy mails like this afterwards:

Code:

From: backup@localhost
To: z3bra@localhost
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 03:43:31 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [BACKUP][20150617] - /var/backup/out/production

BACKUP FINISHED
===============
name    : production
start   : Wed Jun 17 02:00:01 CEST 2015
stop    : Wed Jun 17 03:42:47 CEST 2015
outdir  : /var/backup/out is a mountpoint
outfile : /var/backup/out/production (production.5.BAK)
size    : 1.3G

ROTATION STATE
==============
/var/backup/out/production.0.BAK
/var/backup/out/production.1.BAK
/var/backup/out/production.2.BAK
/var/backup/out/production.3.BAK
/var/backup/out/production.4.BAK
/var/backup/out/production.5.BAK

DISK USAGE
==========
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1               931.0G    626.0G    305.0G  67% /var/backup/out

BACKUP LOGS
===========

bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.

bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
bzip2: No space left on device
        Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
bzip2: No space left on device
        Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
[2015-06-15 04:30][ERROR] - archiving failed: /var/www /var/git /etc
[2015-06-15 04:30][ERROR] - archiving failed: /data
[2015-06-15 04:34][MESSAGE] - File created - production.5.BAK
[2015-06-15 09:00][MESSAGE] - File created - data.1.BAK
[2015-06-16 03:15][MESSAGE] - archived: /var/www /var/git /etc
[2015-06-16 03:25][MESSAGE] - File created - production.5.BAK
[2015-06-17 03:31][MESSAGE] - archived: /var/www /var/git /etc
[2015-06-17 03:42][MESSAGE] - File created - production.5.BAK

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Cheers.

Hi z3bra the discussion is started from your blog post.
But I tried to find an other solution from nixers more educated than me. However I have between 10GB and 20GB in my home dir, I think that I will use the tar o cpio solution for backup with rotation.
Thank you venam for you link, I try find previous thread but I hadn't seen that.

(18-06-2015, 08:03 AM)p3p1 Wrote: But I tried to find an other solution from nixers more educated than me. However I have between 10GB and 20GB in my home dir, I think that I will use the tar o cpio solution for backup with rotation.

I do a weekly backup of more than 100GB using rsync and it takes around 15min.
Doing the whole compression/uncompression thing will take forever but if you prefer having rollbacks by date I can understand.