On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Re: backups, I find rsync to the perfect solution for me. Here's an excerpt
> from one of my backup scripts:
>
> /usr/bin/rsync -vurltD --exclude-from=/home/roberts/.rsync/exclude
> /home/roberts /mnt/backup >>/home/roberts/backup.log 2>&1
>
Here's part of mine:
if mount | grep -s $DEST >/dev/null 2>&1
then
rsync -ax --delete --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=.gvfs $SRC/
$DEST/
else
echo destination $DEST is not mounted
fi
first thing the original did was fill the root file system by
rsync'ing into a mount point with nothing mounted on it.
I'm backing up the root these days, too, because it was such a pain to
recover the install state two weeks ago. Now the backup is configured
to replace the laptop drive in the time it takes to swap drives.
You could always take a MacMini and install Ubuntu on it. Anybody
know in what format TimeMachine stores your stuff?
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