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andrewd18
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 Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:57 am Post subject: Backing Up Your Data |
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Just wanted to know how most people around here backup their data. CD-R? CD-RW? DVD? External HDD?
I've got an 80GB external drive I'd like to use for backups... should I just cp -R *, or use a backup program like Mondo?
~~ Andrew D.
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Dlareh
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:15 am Post subject: |
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You should:
| Code: | | rsync -a /path/to/source /path/to/destination |
If /path/to/source is "/", then you'll need something like:
| Code: | | rsync -ax --exclude "/mnt/" --exclude "/dev/" --exclude "/proc/" --exclude "/sys/" --exclude "/tmp/" --exclude "/var/tmp/" --exclude "/cheese/" --exclude "/usr/portage" --exclude ".ccache" / /path/to/destination |
Also check out rsnapshot if you're interested in incremental backups.
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Arenium
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:44 am Post subject: |
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This is the method I use, only I setup Keychain to facilitate password-less rsync over SSH backups. You can see the half-assed script I use here. There you'll also find the (equally half-assed) script I use to keep the system up to date.
In general, get familiar with all there is to know in the standard backup scheme: cron, rsync, tar, rdiff-backup, etc.
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