Andrew Errington wrote:
Hi all,
I am running MEPIS 6.5 with a KDE desktop. I am considering running Keep
(the KDE backup thing) to do local time-series backups of my home directory
(to guard against accidental deletions or edits) and then rsync to mirror
everything from /home to an external USB drive periodically. The idea is
that for minor losses I can refer to the local Keep backups, and for
catastrophic failure I can restore from the rsync mirror (which will
include the Keep backups too). Anyone doing anything like this? All I
have (or rather, all I will have) is the laptop and the external HD and I
don't want to lose any data (of course).
Comments appreciated,
Thanks,
Andrew
Hi Andy
I have separate hard drive for data I want to keep. I rsync this drive
to a usb drive with the following command.
$rsync -avz --delete --stats --progress /mnt/hdd/data/ \ /mnt/sdb1/backup
The usb drive is encrypted with encfs which I leave off site.
Also I back up my entire home directory to another machine using rsync
through ssh. If I want to retrieve anything I just ssh into the other
machine. This could also be used for off site backup.
$rsync -avz --delete --stats --progress --bwlimit=100 \
-e ssh /home/col/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/col/backup
Beware, it pays to practice on some temp directory's first as it is very
easy to delete the wrong stuff.
Hope that gives you some ideas.
Col.
