On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: [snip] > All my partitions are LVM volumes, so before the backup starts, I make a > LVM snapshot of the partition. This way I can modify it while the backup > is still in progress.
hmm, never got into LVM. Sounds interesting though... [snip] > I wrote a shell script to do this, so I do not have to issue a lot of > commands every time I want to do the backup. I don't use too many commands, something like this in /etc/cron.daily/custom-backup: sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/rsync -aAx --exclude suspend_file --delete-delay --delete-excluded --partial --human-readable / /<unique-mount-of-external-drive> || echo external backup failed! > As there are now some others > using this script, adapted to their needs, I started to rewrite it in a > way that it reads a config file, and no modification of the script itself > is necessary. If anyone is interested, send me an email. interested! So is it on sourceforge yet ;) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> BOFH Excuse #418: Sysadmins busy fighting SPAM.
