On 05/18/2010 03:50 PM, Jeff Sadino wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was wondering what everyone's opinion is as to the best > command/program to use for backups? I don't need to preserve the > partition table, basically just copy files to a backup hard drive. > > Thanks! > Jeff > Here's my script to backup to an external USB drive [sdstern@sds-desk ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/do-backup #! /bin/sh cd /media/MyBookLX/sds-desk echo deleting oldest backup rm -fr backup.9 echo rolling backups mv backup.8 backup.9 mv backup.7 backup.8 mv backup.6 backup.7 mv backup.5 backup.6 mv backup.4 backup.5 mv backup.3 backup.4 mv backup.2 backup.3 mv backup.1 backup.2 echo copying backup to backup.1 cp -al backup backup.1 echo updating backup touch /last_backup_ts rsync -va --exclude-from /usr/local/bin/do-backup-excludes --delete / /media/MyBookLX/sds-desk/backup/ cd / echo Wait for external drive to settle sleep 30 umount /media/MyBookLX echo USB drive ejected [sdstern@sds-desk ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/do-backup-excludes /home/*/.gvfs/ /home/*/.google/ /home/*/.dbus/ /home/*/.fonts/ /proc /tmp /var/tmp /media /sys /dev -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines