Andrew Errington wrote:
On Thursday 26 July 2007 17:36, Col wrote:
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.
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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.
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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.
It's great! Here's what I've got:
rsync -av --stats --progress --delete /home/ /media/sda1/backup/
Everything is in /home, so it gets all users' home directories
(/home/username) and all my photos and mp3s (/home/data/photos
and /home/data/mp3)
I am not compressing the data, so the files on the USB drive are visible as
ordinary files- nothing special is needed to get them back. I have not set
up Keep yet, but that will simply create more files in my home directory,
which will be copied by rsync.
oops. The -z option doesn't compress the data at the destination, but is
used for compressing the data during transmission over a network. Thanks
for pointing out it not necessary here.
I am doing this operation as root, with nobody logged on to the laptop. Then
I know that no files are open or otherwise being messed with. I still have
to make a list of files that I *don't* want to back up, like a lot of the
files beginning with '.', but that can be added later.
I feel much happier that I finally have a sensible backup routine at home,
rather than the ad-hoc methods I've employed so far.
Thanks for all the tips- and anyone else that hasn't done this yet, think
seriously about your backup regime (ah, the zeal of the newly-converted!).
A
I am considering learning subversion as a possible solution to guard
against accidental edits and deletes. Or am I on the wrong track there?
Col.
