Re: [Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

Hi Peter > I see that I can find everything in case I need to restore too. Now to > test it as a future incremental backup. The only question that I have > before I continue is that on my backup media I have a directory called > pictures already, and will this overwrite it, or just do the >

Re: [Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

On 08/10/15 09:44, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter Tim wrote: Take a look at rdiff-backup which uses rsync libs. It's possible to exclude specific directories (--exclude or --exclude-globbing-filelist). If you call it from a daily cronjob you can back up multiple directory trees by running it

Re: [Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

Be aware that there is an inherent problem using rsync for backups, which is addressed by some of the projects that wrap around rsync. If you simply rsync from SystemA to SystemB, you are not preserving history. If you use the "--delete" switch, SystemB will be a faithful copy of SystemA;

Re: [Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

On 07/10/15 22:25, Tim wrote: On 07/10/15 19:21, Peter Merchant wrote: Hi, I have been looking for a means of formalising my backup procedures. At the moment on my USB 500Tb Backup drive I have three sets of folders: Can you tell me where you bought your 500TB USB drive please? :) Oops-

Re: [Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

Hi Peter Tim wrote: > Take a look at rdiff-backup which uses rsync libs. It's possible to > exclude specific directories (--exclude or --exclude-globbing-filelist). > If you call it from a daily cronjob you can back up multiple directory > trees by running it sequentially on those. The most

Re: [Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

In that instance, you can always unpack an archive into a temporary directory and just copy across the directories or files that you want restored. On 7 October 2015 at 20:42, Peter Merchant wrote: > That's one other criteria I forgot to mention. I don't really want

Re: [Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

On 07/10/15 19:21, Peter Merchant wrote: Hi, I have been looking for a means of formalising my backup procedures. At the moment on my USB 500Tb Backup drive I have three sets of folders: Can you tell me where you bought your 500TB USB drive please? :) D-2015-Mo-dy From Downstairs XP

Re: [Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

I have just run a trial with grsync and it seems to basically have worked, except that I decided to enter a script to run before it started to clear the firefox cache that looked like it worked but didn't, and the --exclude "my pictures" did not exclude them. And it gave error messages at

Re: [Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

That's one other criteria I forgot to mention. I don't really want all the files zipped up. I like to be able to see that they are all there and to pull back any that I should need for whatever reason. I guess that I am a bit worried that I could have a situation where I can't undo a tarball

[Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

Hi, I have been looking for a means of formalising my backup procedures. At the moment on my USB 500Tb Backup drive I have three sets of folders: D-2015-Mo-dy From Downstairs XP machine Data partititon U-2015-Mo-dy from upstairs kubuntu /home partition Pictures Pictures and

Re: [Dorset] Rsync & grsync backups - help please

Hi Peter, Backup-manager is excellent at creating sequential gzipped tarballs of directories and managing their expirations. It's also good at mysql dump archives too, if that's relevant to you. That would be my recommendation - although note that because it's a sequential tarballer (it'll do