Using rsync you can keep incremental backups easily and with minimal fuss. See: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
Tip: use the --link-dest switch, it's a beautiful thing :) On November 30, 2007 11:24:28 am Richard Carter wrote: > Hi Folks, > > When I installed Debian 4.0 I created a big, non-encrypted partition for > everything except /boot using Logical Volume Management. This seems to > have created problems for some backup programs: e.g. sbackup worked for a > while and then just quit, mondorescue failed because it couldn't find > "valid partition tables" for /dev /etc. > > But I think I have a simple, elegant solution! While my internal HD has > 160GB only about 12GB are used. In addition I have an 80GB external HD. I > just use cp -au. It's easy to do, fast and it doesn't require my esternal > HD to be running all the time. I run my external HD only when I backup in > hopes that is will out live my internal HD. > > Any comments? > > Robin _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
