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Archiving/backup tool
user name
 2007-04-17 21:35:44 
I have a 20 GB home directory that I'd like to back up to my
external
USB drive, and then do incremental backups once a week or
so
there-after. What is the suggested best way to do this?
Besides the
normal files there are also 8 2GB VMWare virtual disk files
in the
mix. I tried to create a tarball out of it, it errored out
on the
size.

Thanks


ED

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RE: Archiving/backup tool
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United States		 2007-04-17 21:43:39 
I use rsync and cron

rsync -avu /var /backup  --report /etc/cron.daily

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Subject: Archiving/backup tool

I have a 20 GB home directory that I'd like to back up to my
external
USB drive, and then do incremental backups once a week or
so
there-after. What is the suggested best way to do this?
Besides the
normal files there are also 8 2GB VMWare virtual disk files
in the
mix. I tried to create a tarball out of it, it errored out
on the
size.

Thanks


ED

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Re: Archiving/backup tool
user name
 2007-04-18 01:04:12 

  


  

    rsync is great for lots of small files and you can hard link to get the incremental backups (it's what I use so let me know if you want my script and I'll post the current source online), but for huge (2GB) files, I might look into rdiff-backup since it only stores the differences instead of both files as rsync and hard linking would do.  The downside to using rdiff-backup is that the increments are stored as diff files and so are not fully browseable.  So far, there is no free software I know of that lets you have your cake and eat it too.


Oh, and cron is the best for regular scheduling if you always have the external drive on and connected, otherwise you just need to remember.

-Scott

On 4/17/07, 
Karl-Heinz Schulz < karlheinzkhschulz.com">karlheinzkhschulz.com> wrote:

I use rsync and cron

rsync -avu /var /backup&nbsp; --report /etc/cron.daily

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Subject: Archiving/backup tool

I have a 20 GB home directory that I'd like to back up to my external
USB drive, and then do incremental backups once a week or so
there-after. What is the suggested best way to do this? Besides the

normal files there are also 8 2GB VMWare virtual disk files in the
mix. I tried to create a tarball out of it, it errored out on the
size.

Thanks


ED




  

  
  
   
     
    

  

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     2007-04-18 01:24:37
  


  

    
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:35 -0400, Ed Smits wrote:
> I have a 20 GB home directory that I'd like to back up
to my external
> USB drive, and then do incremental backups once a week
or so
> there-after.

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