Using rdiff-backup. Nice app! You can rdiff for a different machine and
add a line to cron to do that automatically! :D
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 01:05, Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
What do people do / recommend for backing up?
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I do 'tar -cjf /tmp/backup.tar.bz2 /home ... ... ...; tar -cf
/dev/tape /tmp/backup.tar.bz2'. I really need to backup critical data
off of the box, also.
Do note that for tape issues its
Here is what i use from crontab once a day:
it makes a space efficient copy of every file, and every version so i can retrieve any previous version, best to put the target snapshot directory on a different drive. adapted from: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
#!/bin/sh
On Monday 03 November 2003 02:05, Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
What do people do / recommend for backing up?
a scsi tape drive from ebay, some quality tapes, tar ;o)
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Good point Bill. I do have ADSL and can d'load at roughly 165k/sec
Distfiles, though becomes so large that it would soon overwhelm my 20
gig drive that I back up to. Perhaps it would be smart to copy some
files from distfiles to ~/home where they would be backed up and I
could later
What do people do / recommend for backing up?
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:05:16 -0800, Rick [Kitty5] muttered:
What do people do / recommend for backing up?
I rsync my $HOME to a secondary hard disk.
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Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
What do people do / recommend for backing up?
I run Gentoo on a production server. I have 2 different backup methods. First, I have a
second HD of identical size that I do a nightly rsync to. Second, I have a tape backup
drive. I do 'tar -cjf /tmp/backup.tar.bz2 /home ...
Can you share the script/crontab etc you use to accomplish this?
Currently I just create a tarball of $home and put it on a secondary
disk, but I do it by hand every night before I go to bed.
Cheers:)
Max.
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 11:39, Andrew Farmer wrote:
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:05:16 -0800,
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:24:35 -0800, MadMax muttered:
Can you share the script/crontab etc you use to accomplish this?
The script follows. Note that I'm just synchronizing some directories from
my $HOME -- stuff left sitting in there won't get synchronized (though one
could probably fix this
On Sunday 02 November 2003 08:05 pm, Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
What do people do / recommend for backing up?
I do rsync backups as well but to a normally unmounted spun down drive
on a second box. The script below runs at 12:01 AM daily. My script
is still a bit crude but it evolves as I learn and
One thing I noticed about your excludes:
I use a modem so distfiles is very important when doing a (re)build. As
a backup script you should include all the files needed to get up and
running.
Unless you are one of the lucky few with nearly unlimited net access,
and no traffic limits or have
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Rick [Kitty5] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do people do / recommend for backing up?
rdiff backup to offline medium. Tape archives/cdrom for snapshots
((bi)Weekly, usually a saturday job with sms messaging so it can be
fixed on sunday if things
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Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do 'tar -cjf /tmp/backup.tar.bz2 /home ... ... ...; tar -cf
/dev/tape /tmp/backup.tar.bz2'. I really need to backup critical data
off of the box, also.
Do note that for tape issues its suggested not
Karl Huysmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2-disk/1-spare software RAID 1.
This will not protect you against accidental file deletion or (???)
viruses, but at least, you don' t even have to think about backups.
At least in typical office environments backups are mostly used
exactly for that
It depends on the amount of data you have. Hard drives and tapes can backup
a lot of data. However, for a home user you probably aren't backing up that
much. For ease of ue take a look at using a CDR or CDRW. If you have more
than fits on one CD then split you backups up to use more CDs.
I've used CDRs for the backups I've done on CD. They are cheap enough that
they work out better than trying to do a CDRW over and over.
Backup anything you can't afford to loose G. Some things in your home
directory - personal stuff such as financial and other records you want to
keep. You
My ISP provide me with a 20meg filespace that I make use of regularly. I
compress, encrypt and upload to it nightly.
Not a lot of room... but perfect for important config data, etc. It also has
the advantage of being accessable where ever and when ever I'm near an
internet hookup...
For
Hi list!
What is better to use for backups at home - CD-Rs, CD-RWs, another harddrive
or something else?
The standard way is to use tapes, but they are way too expensive for a home
desktop system. Harddrives are also not that good, because I want to backup a
harddrive in the first place, and
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On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 03:18, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
Hi list!
What is better to use for backups at home - CD-Rs, CD-RWs, another
harddrive or something else?
The standard way is to use tapes, but they are way too expensive for
a home desktop system. Harddrives are also not that good, because
On Sunday 10 August 2003 02:52, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
My home directory is 2.1G so I will need at least 4 CDRs for that. Also
/etc is also worth backing up as well as some files from /var/cache/edb.
What else would you suggest for a backup?
I personnally get to save
- /etc
- my
On Sunday 10 August 2003 04:31, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
It depends on the amount of data you have. Hard drives and tapes can
backup a lot of data. However, for a home user you probably aren't backing
up that much. For ease of ue take a look at using a CDR or CDRW. If you
have more than
ATA disks are indeed cheep. I have given up making backups at home, I
just created a mirror, so my files are protected against disk failures.
A very good way is to have 3 identical disks and to create a
2-disk/1-spare software RAID 1.
This will not protect you against accidental file deletion or
-- quoting Chris I --
I have toyed with the idea of full backups every other week, and
incrimental backups every few days, keeping the last full backup
and all incrimentals since. Right now I'm working on a
partner-based backup script along these lines using ssh and rsync.
I've got a small network (4 computers) here at my home (3 run linux, 1
runs win98) that I want to start doing backups on to a second hard disk in
one of the computers (I hope to burn these backups onto a cd-r disk every
week or so). What tools will do this? What would you recommend? How do you
do
This is what I use. I have a cron setup to run this script every night. I've
had it running for several months and it already saved me once.
Let me know if you have ant questions or suggestions.
Jason
#! /bin/bash
###
# Backup Script
###
mount /boot
On Sunday 01 Jun 2003 01:15, Jason Calabrese wrote:
#! /bin/bash
###
# Backup Script
###
mount /boot -o ro
mount /mnt/backup
FILE=/mnt/backup/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar
FILE_LIST=/mnt/backup/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.list
OLD_FILE=/mnt/backup/`date --date='3
On 2003.05.31 21:24, Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Sunday 01 Jun 2003 01:15, Jason Calabrese wrote:
#! /bin/bash
###
# Backup Script
###
mount /boot -o ro
mount /mnt/backup
FILE=/mnt/backup/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar
FILE_LIST=/mnt/backup/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.list
I like your script, but have one reservation. It seems ideal to
completely restore, for example, yesterday's backup; but with such a
big tarball it will be very difficult to restore one or two small
files. I do something similar on many smaller chunks of the
filesystem.
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