Re: [ilugd] Faster way to take backup?
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Vivek Kapoor subs...@exain.com wrote: On Wed 30 Sep 2009 11:25:20 PM IST , Sameep sam...@tuxwire.com wrote: On 30-Sep-2009, at 10:05 PM, Anupam Jain wrote: I think it's time someone created something similar to Apple's Time Machine based on one of these incremental backup solutions. Why do we need to remember cryptic commands to do something as simple and integral as automatic foolproof backup? There is a project called Flyback. http://flyback-project.org/ Its a GUI for a bunch of commands. Flyback AFAIK is not being maintained anymore. You can try out Back In Time http://backintime.le-web.org Excellent! Very easy to setup and use. And with KDE and Gnome interfaces! I've started using it immediately. -- Anupam ___ 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/
Re: [ilugd] Faster way to take backup?
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/
Re: [ilugd] Faster way to take backup?
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Devendra Gera g...@theoldmonk.net wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Amit Sharma wrote: 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? Why not go the incremental way? I've been using Brackup successfully, and I'm planning to move to a git-based system - although the existing-git-repositories-as-submodules keeps throwing me off. It's been a while since I tried, so the situation might have changed. I think it's time someone created something similar to Apple's Time Machine based on one of these incremental backup solutions. Why do we need to remember cryptic commands to do something as simple and integral as automatic foolproof backup? -- Anupam ___ 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/
Re: [ilugd] Faster way to take backup?
On 30-Sep-2009, at 10:05 PM, Anupam Jain wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Devendra Gera g...@theoldmonk.net wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Amit Sharma wrote: 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? Why not go the incremental way? I've been using Brackup successfully, and I'm planning to move to a git-based system - although the existing-git-repositories-as-submodules keeps throwing me off. It's been a while since I tried, so the situation might have changed. I think it's time someone created something similar to Apple's Time Machine based on one of these incremental backup solutions. Why do we need to remember cryptic commands to do something as simple and integral as automatic foolproof backup? There is a project called Flyback. http://flyback-project.org/ Its a GUI for a bunch of commands. Regards, Sameep www.TuxDVDs.com The Best Online Linux Distro Store Latest Distros Ubuntu Ultimate 2.3 Gamer Edition Linux Mint 7 Xfce Zenwalk Linux 6.2 -- Anupam ___ 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/ ___ 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/
Re: [ilugd] Faster way to take backup?
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Amit Sharma wrote: Hi, I would like to share the following backup script being used by me. Works Fine. Just in case some one needs it. I thought everyone used Conduit (http://www.conduit-project.org/) With Warm Regards, Shivkumar linux user no: 450769 blog: outbackwifi.blogspot.com profile: www.linkedin.com/in/shivjags Try the new Yahoo! India Homepage. Click here. http://in.yahoo.com/trynew ___ 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/
Re: [ilugd] Faster way to take backup?
On Wed 30 Sep 2009 11:25:20 PM IST , Sameep sam...@tuxwire.com wrote: On 30-Sep-2009, at 10:05 PM, Anupam Jain wrote: I think it's time someone created something similar to Apple's Time Machine based on one of these incremental backup solutions. Why do we need to remember cryptic commands to do something as simple and integral as automatic foolproof backup? There is a project called Flyback. http://flyback-project.org/ Its a GUI for a bunch of commands. Flyback AFAIK is not being maintained anymore. You can try out Back In Time http://backintime.le-web.org -- Best Regards Vivek Kapoor http://exain.com ___ 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/
[ilugd] Faster way to take backup?
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? #!/bin/bash #Daily Backup Script for backing up /home echo Time backup started = $(date +%T) before=$(date +%s) datestamp=$(date) tempdate=$(date +%F) tar -zcvf /backupfilename.tar.gz /home 2 /root/logs/DAILYBACKUP_$tempdate.log # Calculates and outputs total time take after=$(date +%s) elapsed=$(expr $after - $before) hours=$(($elapsed / 3600)) elapsed=$(($elapsed - $hours * 3600)) minutes=$(($elapsed / 60)) seconds=$(($elapsed - $minutes * 60)) echo Home Folder Backup - $datestamp - Time Taken $hours hours $minutes minutes $seconds seconds /root/logs/dailybackup.log echo - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - /root/logs/dailybackup.log Connect more, do more and share more with Yahoo! India Mail. Learn more. http://in.overview.mail.yahoo.com/ ___ 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/
Re: [ilugd] Faster way to take backup?
On 29-Sep-2009, at 12:42 PM, Amit Sharma wrote: 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? I use mirrordir. Once the first run is complete , it only takes a few seconds to update the changes. Regards, Sameep www.TuxDVDs.com The Best Online Linux Distro Store Latest Distros Ubuntu Ultimate 2.3 Gamer Edition Linux Mint 7 Xfce Zenwalk Linux 6.2 #!/bin/bash #Daily Backup Script for backing up /home echo Time backup started = $(date +%T) before=$(date +%s) datestamp=$(date) tempdate=$(date +%F) tar -zcvf /backupfilename.tar.gz /home 2 /root/logs/DAILYBACKUP_ $tempdate.log # Calculates and outputs total time take after=$(date +%s) elapsed=$(expr $after - $before) hours=$(($elapsed / 3600)) elapsed=$(($elapsed - $hours * 3600)) minutes=$(($elapsed / 60)) seconds=$(($elapsed - $minutes * 60)) echo Home Folder Backup - $datestamp - Time Taken $hours hours $minutes minutes $seconds seconds /root/logs/dailybackup.log echo - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - /root/logs/ dailybackup.log Connect more, do more and share more with Yahoo! India Mail. Learn more. http://in.overview.mail.yahoo.com/ ___ 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/ ___ 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/
Re: [ilugd] Faster way to take backup?
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Amit Sharma wrote: 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? Why not go the incremental way? I've been using Brackup successfully, and I'm planning to move to a git-based system - although the existing-git-repositories-as-submodules keeps throwing me off. It's been a while since I tried, so the situation might have changed. --gera. ___ 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/
Re: [ilugd] Faster way to take backup?
2009/9/29 Amit Sharma amit_...@yahoo.com: 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? Where is the back up kept? On the same machine and hard disk? Not good at all. Try rsync and you can put the script in crontab to backup on to another machine or within same machine of different hard disk. -- Regards, Sudev Barar Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there. PS: Replying using bottom post/in-line post makes email conversations whole lot easier for meaningful dialogue. Snip out what is not relevant. Adopt this and spread the message. ___ 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/
Re: [ilugd] Faster way to take backup?
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Amit Sharma amit_...@yahoo.com wrote: 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? Well, the incremental backup is the way to go, like everyone said. You can use rsync for that. Its quite easy. -- Regards Chirag Anand Junior Systems Architect E2E Networks | http://www.e2enetworks.com chirag.an...@e2enetworks.com Blog :http://techfreaks4u.com/blog anything weird is worth a try... ___ 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/
