Hi I would like to share the following backup script?being used by me. Works > Fine. Just in case some one needs it. > > My /home is 40 GB abd?tar.gz file comes to 20 GB and takes about 1 hour 10 > mins to create. > > My question is - Is there faster way to take the backup? > [snip]
> echo "- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -" >> /root/logs/dailybackup.lo > I use rdiff-backup, extremely easy to use and does an incremental backup and only copies what is new after the first backup, and also keeps screenshots of backup to go back to a previous state of data. Adip -- My web home http://acedip.in Linux Users Group Jaipur http://lugj.in -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/FA/L/MU/P/S !d s:- a-- C UL P++ L+++ E- W++ N++ o K-- w--- O- M- V PS PE Y PGP t 5 X R tv b DI D G e h+ r- y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/