That's one other criteria I forgot to mention. I don't really want all
the files zipped up. I like to be able to see that they are all there
and to pull back any that I should need for whatever reason. I guess
that I am a bit worried that I could have a situation where I can't undo
a tarball or image.
[ I have just finished sorting out a neighbours backup where his whole
xp system was imaged on his backup and he wanted to restore just his
data onto his new W10 computer]
Peter
On 07/10/15 19:30, Simon Avery wrote:
Hi Peter,
Backup-manager is excellent at creating sequential gzipped tarballs of
directories and managing their expirations. It's also good at mysql
dump archives too, if that's relevant to you.
That would be my recommendation - although note that because it's a
sequential tarballer (it'll do that over rsync if you need), it won't
only copy the files that have changed.
For that, backuppc is another excellent tool that I use heavily. It
will do that and pool the files between as many clients as you have,
which means there's only ever one copy of any unique file no matter
how many times it occurs on different machines, but will manage
different versions with ease.. Between them they manage almost every
use-case I encounter, including backing up windows clients, servers,
linux clients, file servers, whatever.
Hope that's useful
S
On 7 October 2015 at 19:21, Peter Merchant <madsmad...@netscape.net
<mailto:madsmad...@netscape.net>> wrote:
Hi, I have been looking for a means of formalising my backup
procedures. At the moment on my USB 500Tb Backup drive I have
three sets of folders:
D-2015-Mo-dy From Downstairs XP machine Data partititon
U-2015-Mo-dy from upstairs kubuntu /home partition
Pictures Pictures and photos combined from both D & U
The Pictures folder already exists, but the others would have to
be created by the script or manually beforehand.
What I would like to do is backup the Kubuntu machine /home
contents to a base U-2015-Mo-Dy folder, including hidden files,
but Excepting the My Pictures folder.
Similarly for the XP machine.
Then update the Pictures folder with any and all updates and
changed files.
Second stage is to more frequently run an incremental backup of
all changes and updates on the Kubuntu box to a separate folder,
perhaps U-2015-mo-dy-topup. This to be followed by, or performed
separately for a backup of pictures.
Is this possible? It looked very difficult to learn how to use
rsync to do it, so I thought I might try grsync.
If grsync creates the scripts that can be run by rsync, can I then
in the future run those scripts without the GUI?
Thanks for any help or advice.
Peter M.
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