On 07/10/15 19:21, Peter Merchant 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:
Can you tell me where you bought your 500TB USB drive please? :)
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.
While this may not be the full answer to your problem I have found using
Luckybackup a very useful program for sorting out my backups (at least
to the point of backing up what I want). Luckybackup is basically a GUI
for rsync and I have used it simply for that purpose. I constructed a
backup I want in luckybackup and then once I am happy it is backing up
what I want I copy the rsync output into a script and then just run it
as a cron job ( I used scheduledtask to setup the cron job).
Hope it helps
Tim
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