This may by my own ignorance but since I don't have a reliable way to backup my linode it would be great to be able to directly download a linode disk image from the Linode Platform Manager.

Steve

Rsync, man!
man rsync

You don't need to backup your whole image, just the stuff you
change and that would be painful to recreate. E.g. : /etc, /home,
web page, database files, etc. If you use Debian, run dpkg --get-selections periodically and save that output; then you can
reload it with dpkg --set-selections. I'm sure there's something similar for Red Hat, Gentoo, whatever.

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Try out rsnapshot. I've been using it for a few months now, and it's awesome. Very easy to set up.

Thanks, I have looked at both of these but It's my understanding that the remote backup location for rysnc needs to be running Linux. My Linode is the only Linux server I have.

Regards,
Steve

Well in that case, it looks like you have a good excuse to get another linux box up and running

I guess I'm not sure what to recommend if you don't have another unix box. Perhaps you can have a cron make daily tarballs of critical directories (/etc, /home, /var) and copy them to /tmp. Then from your windows box ( or whatever other system you have ), run a cron job/scheduled task/etc to grab those tarballs shortly after they're created. This would be pretty easy to script using scp and public key auth.

Or if you're not up to that, you can install the Cygwin environment on your Windows box and get Rsync from it.

I do an rsync backup occasionally to my desktop that usually runs Windows by using Knoppix http://knoppix.com/ which is a very cool cd bootable Linux system. All I really need is enough disk space to create the Linux partition,

For more regular backups I have a script that gzips important directories and MySQL dumps.

Ross