Hi Peter
> I see that I can find everything in case I need to restore too. Now to
> test it as a future incremental backup. The only question that I have
> before I continue is that on my backup media I have a directory called
> pictures already, and will this overwrite it, or just do the
> increm
On 08/10/15 09:44, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter
Tim wrote:
Take a look at rdiff-backup which uses rsync libs. It's possible to
exclude specific directories (--exclude or --exclude-globbing-filelist).
If you call it from a daily cronjob you can back up multiple directory
trees by running it se
Hi Peter
Tim wrote:
> Take a look at rdiff-backup which uses rsync libs. It's possible to
> exclude specific directories (--exclude or --exclude-globbing-filelist).
> If you call it from a daily cronjob you can back up multiple directory
> trees by running it sequentially on those. The most rec
On 08/10/15 07:12, Keith Edmunds wrote:
Be aware that there is an inherent problem using rsync for backups, which
is addressed by some of the projects that wrap around rsync.
If you simply rsync from SystemA to SystemB, you are not preserving
history. If you use the "--delete" switch, SystemB wi
On 07/10/15 22:25, Tim wrote:
On 07/10/15 19:21, Peter Merchant wrote:
Hi, I have been looking for a means of formalising my backup
procedures. At the moment on my USB 500Tb Backup drive I have three
sets of folders:
Can you tell me where you bought your 500TB USB drive please? :)
Oops- I
Be aware that there is an inherent problem using rsync for backups, which
is addressed by some of the projects that wrap around rsync.
If you simply rsync from SystemA to SystemB, you are not preserving
history. If you use the "--delete" switch, SystemB will be a faithful copy
of SystemA; realisin
On 07/10/15 19:21, Peter Merchant wrote:
Hi, I have been looking for a means of formalising my backup
procedures. At the moment on my USB 500Tb Backup drive I have three
sets of folders:
Can you tell me where you bought your 500TB USB drive please? :)
D-2015-Mo-dy From Downstairs XP machin
I have just run a trial with grsync and it seems to basically have
worked, except that I decided to enter a script to run before it started
to clear the firefox cache that looked like it worked but didn't, and
the --exclude "my pictures" did not exclude them. And it gave error
messages at the
In that instance, you can always unpack an archive into a temporary
directory and just copy across the directories or files that you want
restored.
On 7 October 2015 at 20:42, Peter Merchant wrote:
> That's one other criteria I forgot to mention. I don't really want all the
> files zipped up.
Hi Peter
On 07/10/15 20:42, Peter Merchant wrote:
That's one other criteria I forgot to mention. I don't really want all
the files zipped up. I like to be able to see that they are all there
and to pull back any that I should need for whatever reason. I guess
that I am a bit worried that I coul
That's one other criteria I forgot to mention. I don't really want all
the files zipped up. I like to be able to see that they are all there
and to pull back any that I should need for whatever reason. I guess
that I am a bit worried that I could have a situation where I can't undo
a tarball or
Hi Peter,
Backup-manager is excellent at creating sequential gzipped tarballs of
directories and managing their expirations. It's also good at mysql dump
archives too, if that's relevant to you.
That would be my recommendation - although note that because it's a
sequential tarballer (it'll do tha
Hi, I have been looking for a means of formalising my backup
procedures. At the moment on my USB 500Tb Backup drive I have three
sets of folders:
D-2015-Mo-dy From Downstairs XP machine Data partititon
U-2015-Mo-dy from upstairs kubuntu /home partition
Pictures Pictures and pho
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