On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:51, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > It's really about time I installed a decent backup procedure for my
> > linux box.
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
>
> rsync, bash.
> Bonus: does the job *exactly* as you want it done.
> Negative: no GUI. But then, a GUI is doing you a fat load of good with
> cron anyway.
I concur. I use something based around this main line;
rsync -aRv --stats --delete-during --backup \
--backup-dir=/$NAME-$DATE $OPTIONS \
{/etc,/home,/var,/root} \
$SERVER::$MODULE/$NAME 2>&1 >> /var/log/hackup.$NAME
hads
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