There's a scripted backup solution based on rsync called rsnapshot.
There's a method here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-611411-highlight-offsite+backup.html
... that would allow you to add in bash commands to tar/bz2 and write to
dvd.
Roger Searle wrote:
Sure, I appreciate that. And that is why I'd like to introduce an
rsync backup. However it doesn't address my requirement to have an
off-site backup as I don't have a remote destination (that's always
available) that I can make use of, hence the tar files burnt to DVD
and transported away in my car / on my bike. I'll need to continue
with the current off-site method even when I have rsync copying the
data to another machine in the next room - until I figure out the
offsite part.
Nick Rout wrote:
Of course if you used rsync you would be sure that all the data in
source
was reproduced byte for byte in destination.
On Wed, January 16, 2008 1:53 pm, Roger Searle wrote:
Nice! While "diff -qr" is a solution (thanks Michael), Meld is a
significantly better one that gives me just what I want. Plus, it is
extremely fast, showing me the difference between 2 locations
containing
several gigs of data within about 15 seconds, while diff grinds away
for
10 minutes or so.
Thanks to everyone for their replies :-)
Roger
John Carter wrote:
It may be a bit of overkill for the task in hand, but by far the best
diff tool out there for Linux systems is "meld".
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