On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 06:59:50AM +0530, Kulkarni Shantanu wrote: > * Chaitannya Mahatme <chaitan...@gmail.com> [100721 08:18]: > > > > Dear all, > > > > I wanted to install an automatic backup and restore for my laptop. I > > wanted a solution which would take incremental backup of my primary > > partition every week or so. > > I take backup of my laptop on daily basis using a home grown rsync > script since last 4 years. I have restored data properly using > that backup. The script, nothing fancy, just contains lines like, > > rsync -az /home/shantanu --exclude ... /media/1TBDisk/laptop-backup > > Shantanu > www.shantanukulkarni.org
I second that. rsync as a very good tool for backup. Mayuresh. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List