On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Devendra Gera <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Amit Sharma wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to share the following backup script being used by me. Works >> Fine. Just in case some one needs it. >> >> My /home is 40 GB abd tar.gz file comes to 20 GB and takes about 1 hour 10 >> mins to create. >> >> My question is - Is there faster way to take the backup? > > Why not go the incremental way? I've been using Brackup successfully, > and I'm planning to move to a git-based system - although the > existing-git-repositories-as-submodules keeps throwing me off. It's been > a while since I tried, so the situation might have changed.
I think it's time someone created something similar to Apple's "Time Machine" based on one of these incremental backup solutions. Why do we need to remember cryptic commands to do something as simple and integral as automatic foolproof backup? -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
