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Nick Smith wrote: | i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup | my server to another external drive i have: | | mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/ |
If you are looking for a way to make backups and to have incremental backups you should look at dump and restore. You have the ability to search and restore individual files from the backups. A simple command to make a full backup of your systems / would be:
dump 0uf /mnt/backup/ epoch-`date +%F` /dev/hda3
This will produce a file called: epoch-2005-02-04 It will contain everything on the partition /dev/hda3
To create an incremental of everything has changed since the epoch you would use:
dump 9uf /mnt/backup/ inc-`date +%F` /dev/hda3
To restore a file in interactive mode you would use:
restore -if /mnt/backup/epoch-2005-02-04 or inc-2005-02-04
For more information on dump and restore please refer to your friendly man pages.
Mike
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