I use a script that I manually run about once a week. It basically just consists of this block repeated for each location I want to back up. Everything goes to a 1TB hard drive, oldest backup is deleted, the rest are incremented and symlinked. I use the -l argument when I make the copy from the latest one to avoid data duplication for files that haven't changed between backups.
sudo rm -rf /media/1TB/azrael.home.backup.3 sudo mv /media/1TB/azrael.home.backup.2 /media/1TB/azrael.home.backup.3 sudo mv /media/1TB/azrael.home.backup.1 /media/1TB/azrael.home.backup.2 sudo cp -al /media/1TB/azrael.home.backup.0 /media/1TB/azrael.home.backup.1 rsync -avP --delete /home/john/ /media/1TB/azrael.home.backup.0/ Probably not the best solution, but simple enough that I understand what's going on and have been able to get my stuff back when I've needed to. If I wanted to be a little more paranoid I should probably prevent the backup drive from mounting and then have the script mount it at start, and unmount it once the backup is complete. -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote: > Today is the first annual world backup day, and in honor of that I'll give > a plug for my favorite open source backup software - Backuppc ( > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net) which has saved my butt more times than I > can count now. > > Automated network backups are a good thing, and something I encourage more > folks to do. > > I also encourage others to post their solutions to the backup space, as > it's always good to learn new techniques people are using. > > -Sean > > -- > > Sean Dague Learn about the Universe with the > sean at dague dot net Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association > http://dague.net http://midhudsonastro.org > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 > May 4 - Inkscape > Jun 1 - Zimbra >
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