For backups, I like incremental mirroring (using rsync) from disk to
disk on a daily basis. Under Linux, every night at 3am, a
cron job runs the following backup script:
#!/bin/csh -f
# This file goes in /etc/cron.daily/
# The following link must be set up in /:
setenv BKP /bkp/
# mirror-like bkp for all evolving Linux partitions:
rsync -a /etc /home /root /usr/local $BKP
To
arrange this, I merely added the script to
/etc/cron.daily/. The directory /bkp/ is a link to a
separate backup drive.
I use a similar script to back up to another computer over the Net, where the rsync line is instead
rsync -e /usr/bin/ssh -rlptvvuz <dirs> <remotehost>:~/ | \
perl -e "while (<>) { print unless m/uptodate/ }"
With all this mirroring, I only need to make DVDs/CDs when I want to move something offline.
Julius
On 9/3/05, Paul Smith <
phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I am looking for a nice program to make backups from the relevant
> directories on my hard disk to a dvd+rw. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
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