On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 08:27, Michael R. Bright wrote: > Run a couple of cron jobs and scripts on the days in question, only tarring > the information with the "tar" program provided in linux. That would be the > easiest.
I think rsync over ssh would be far better. Rsync would give you full and pseudo-incremental backups. (Actually only full backups, but at least you the file copy would be much more efficient than tar). We use removable IDE disks (one per day) and rsync onto them. Given that we have 7 disks, we can get one full backup per day. For most purposes, that's enough. Michael > > Michael R. Bright > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "BYU Unix Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 7:59 AM > Subject: [uug] Server backups daily incremental, weekly full > > > Ahh a new phase in my linux growth...... > > First let me tell you what I need to do then you all can tell me the > best way to do it.... > > I'm running a server at work (SUSE LINUX 9.0), I'm doing work on it with > a LAMP configuration PHP4.3.3. I would like to back up the server, > Incremental ever night and then a full backup on the weekend. The > things that I need backed up are.... > > /srv/www > /home/..... > Mysql Databases > Subversion repositories (there are some built in python scripts that > will dump out a backup file) > > I would use a program like modo/mindi to backup the stuff > however the machine does not have a CD burner. I do have access to a > 100 MB samba share on another machine in the BYU datacenter, and my > second windows workstation (about 40GIG free). > > I think for what I need I'll have to do is some shell scripting... am I > on the right track or totally off in left field.. > > Thank you ALL for you help > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
