I have just run a trial with grsync and it seems to basically have
worked, except that I decided to enter a script to run before it started
to clear the firefox cache that looked like it worked but didn't, and
the --exclude "my pictures" did not exclude them. And it gave error
messages at the end because it was unable to copy some files in
.kde/share ... relating to kate, that were owner only and not accessible
to group or root.
A bit more tweaking to get me happy I think.
Peter
On 07/10/15 21:20, Simon Avery wrote:
In that instance, you can always unpack an archive into a temporary
directory and just copy across the directories or files that you want
restored.
On 7 October 2015 at 20:42, Peter Merchant <madsmad...@netscape.net
<mailto:madsmad...@netscape.net>> wrote:
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>
<mailto: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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