Simple backup script/util?

[Arker]

Hi folks.

What I am dieing to have, is a simple little script or utility that I can setup as a nightly cron job that will backup things like /etc, the dot files in my home directory, and anything else I need, to a backup directory on another mounted partition on my system.

I've looked all over the web and all I can find are things that backup to a tape drive, or burn to a CD and the like. I just want it to make a big tar.gz or something with the date in the filename for example.

My own scripting ability is somewhere between non-existant and beginner so I cannot (yet) create one myself, however I do feel somewhat comfortable with minor editing like adding my own dir's / partitions to an already established script.

I know there must be plenty of these in existance and my googling skillz are subpar or something... I find it hard to believe that there are no other users that want something like this. If any of you use a script or utility like this, could you please post it here or tell me about one elsewhere?

Thank you,
Arker.

[Nitro]

Just so happens I was working on my backup system scripts today too!

Take a peek @ http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

I suggest you read that. If you are interested, I can share with you the one I use on my servers, but I didn't document mine, so you'll have to read through it to figure out what it does. It is based on what I read at the above link.
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[pjp]

Also, there are several other threads asking about backups.

• Backup utilities?
  
• backing up a gentoo system -- how?
  
• Backup Gentoo???

Going to move this to the Duplicate Threads forum.
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