Martin Fisher wrote:
> Thank you for the various responses, and sorry to take up your time.
>
> It is now clear that trying to use backuppc is not really appropriate in
> this case.
It could be made to work, but probably not worth the effort unless you
intend to add other remote targets to back up later.
> I have now looked at a whole range of things, and unfortunately there
> does not seem to be a straightforward tool that I can use in Ubuntu with
> a GUI or web front end that will do what I want - automated incremental
> and full backups to an external drive. I have tried a many things and
> either I cannot understand how to use them or they simply don't actually
> work. I will therefore return to a manual system of occasionally writing
> a zip archive of my home drive to the external drive. It works but is
> tiresome and has a number of problems.
I'd do it this way, assuming your drives have enough space and are
linux-formatted. Create a directory for every partition you want to
back up. Then write a shell script that repeats this for each:
cd /partion_top # examples / /boot
rsync --one-file-system -avH . /path/to/destination/directory
This will take a long time the first time you run it. Subsequent times
will be fast enough that you probably won't bother scheduling or
automating it - just run it in a window where it won't interfere with
anything else you are doing. Once you understand what it is doing, you
may want to ad the --delete option to remove files that have been
removed on the source and perhaps do something with the --backup-dir
option to keep some history of changing files.
You'll end up with a full copy of all your files in a form you can
simply copy back into place if you need them.
--
Les Mikesell
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