There is always a danger that having access to a bunch of bright people on a list like this could make me lazy. As I'm already lazy, I'm going to ignore that hazard and ask for advice on setting up automated backups.
I would like to set up a daily disk to disk backup and dump snapshots onto CD periodically. I'm not interested in automating the CD bit, but having a daily incremental look after itself would be good. Now I know I can use cron to schedule this and tar or a number of other utilities to create the backup files, but it would be nice to wrap this in a script that handled file naming and selection according to date and all that good stuff. I looked at: http://www-jerry.oit.duke.edu/linux/bluedevil/HOWTO/backups_howto.html and http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html and that gives me all I need to do it manually, but getting automated means not forgetting to do it! Any great shell scripts out there that you're willing to share, or other ways and means I haven't considered? cheers Brian
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