On 17/08/12 10:40, Emil Payne wrote: > I have a 1 TB external USB drive with 362 GB used. I'd like to do a full > backup to DVDs and then an incremental (or something) backup every month > or two, also to DVDs or CDs. I'd like the backups to be compressed in > order to save space (i.e. - the number of DVDs/CDs used). What is a > good program to do this with? Or, what is a good step of different > programs to do this with? I'm a home user with decent knowledge of > Debian/Linux, but not a shell programmer.
FWIW, I gave up backing up to DVD when my data reached about 1/10 of the size of yours. Too slow, too cumbersome (having to change disks), too unreliable, to expensive etc. I suggest to buy one or better two other 1TB usb disks and backup to them (alternately). You don't need to be a shell programmer, a simple $ rsync -av /path/to/disk /path/to/backup followed by $ cp -al /path/to/backup /path/to/backup-nnnn where nnnn could be a number or a date, should be more efficient (and cheaper in the long run) than a pile of optical disks. Occasionally, you could use rsync's -c option to verify that your backup is ok. (/path/to/disk is the mount point of your existing disk; /path/to/backup is mountpoint and path of your backup disk) My 2ct, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/502eba27.2070...@aktendiener.de
