On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:28:57 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
I've been tinkering with backups and backup rotation today and I have
come across many wierd and wonderful backup scripts of varying
complexity.
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I use s3sync [0] to just sync my whole (chosen) directory/directories
to an Amazon
On 02/06/11 17:28, Chris Rowson wrote:
I've been tinkering with backups and backup rotation today and I have
come across many wierd and wonderful backup scripts of varying
complexity.
Is there anything wrong with using something simple like this? (except
of course for the lack of validation).
On 02/06/11 17:28, Chris Rowson wrote:
I've been tinkering with backups and backup rotation today and I have
come across many wierd and wonderful backup scripts of varying
complexity.
Is there anything wrong with using something simple like this? (except
of course for the lack of validation).
Thanks so much for all of your suggestions guys.
I ended up with something like this which resulted in part from a need to
get my backups onto a Windows Server and to get an email when it happens (or
if it doesn't).
#!/bin/bash
BACKUPDIR=/home/USERNAME/backup
WHATTOBACKUP=/var/www
I promise to stop spamming the list now! Final draft.
I know the email component should be put into a function but I'm a bad man
and didn't do it!
Just added an extra section that checks to make sure that tar didn't throw
an error code for some reason when it exited.
Chris
We always used to do a daily backup, but Sundays we did a weekly one.
Daily backups (ie. Mon-Sat) were kept 7 days, Sunday backups were on a
4-week cycle.
And, of course, we actually backed up to somewhere else... not to the same
system, as your script appears to do.
You could make it 8-weekly
And, of course, we actually backed up to somewhere else... not to the same
system, as your script appears to do.
It does. But read the rest of the thread and you'll see why, and what
happens next ;-)
Chris
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Chris Rowson wrote:
Unfortunately I'm backing the Linux box up to a Windows server. This
in turn gets backed up by a centralised backup system.
I'd be tempted, in that case, to make things simple(r) for yourself if
you can and just rsync what would need backing up onto some share on the
Chris,
Sorry if this has been mentioned before but have you tried sbackup?
Regards,
Tony.
On 03/06/11 14:49, Chris Rowson wrote:
I promise to stop spamming the list now! Final draft.
I know the email component should be put into a function but I'm a bad
man and didn't do it!
Just added
Chris,
Sorry if this has been mentioned before but have you tried sbackup?
Regards,
Tony.
Hi Tony,
That's a GUI tool isn't it? This is to backup a Linux Server up to a
Windows Server (only you can't see the Windows Server bits).
Chris
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Chris Rowson wrote:
Unfortunately I'm backing the Linux box up to a Windows server. This
in turn gets backed up by a centralised backup system.
I'd be tempted, in that case, to make things simple(r) for yourself if you
can and just rsync what would need backing up onto some share on the
Chris Rowson wrote:
Chris Rowson wrote:
You're pretty much right. Centralised backup handles Win Server but I
need to backup the data on the Linux box too, hence shifting data. ATM
the Win box uses a script to 'pull' archive files from the Linux box
using pscp.exe. I looked briefly at rsync
Chris Rowson wrote:
You're pretty much right. Centralised backup handles Win Server but I
need to backup the data on the Linux box too, hence shifting data. ATM
the Win box uses a script to 'pull' archive files from the Linux box
using pscp.exe. I looked briefly at rsync but it seemed to
Chris,
On 03/06/11 18:54, Chris Rowson wrote:
Chris,
Sorry if this has been mentioned before but have you tried sbackup?
Regards,
Tony.
Hi Tony,
That's a GUI tool isn't it? This is to backup a Linux Server up to a
Windows Server (only you can't see the Windows Server bits).
I
I've been tinkering with backups and backup rotation today and I have
come across many wierd and wonderful backup scripts of varying
complexity.
Is there anything wrong with using something simple like this? (except
of course for the lack of validation).
Basically, let's delete anything over 7
On 2 June 2011 17:28, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been tinkering with backups and backup rotation today and I have
come across many wierd and wonderful backup scripts of varying
complexity.
Is there anything wrong with using something simple like this? (except
of
:28:57
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Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script
I've been tinkering with backups and backup rotation today and I have
come across many wierd and wonderful backup scripts of varying
complexity
On Jun 2, 2011 5:50 PM, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
I would say it depends on what you mean by 'wrong'
I handle the backups for a local government, so yes, that is wrong, very
wrong.
I know where you're coming from. I think the list has quite a few public
sector members in various
On 2 June 2011 18:07, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 2, 2011 5:50 PM, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
I would say it depends on what you mean by 'wrong'
I handle the backups for a local government, so yes, that is wrong, very
wrong.
I know where you're coming from. I
I've started using rsnapshot. It does something similar with the local
retention, but each file which is identical (between retained backups)
is hard-linked rather than taking multiple disk blocks.
Neil.
Unfortunately I'm backing the Linux box up to a Windows server. This
in turn gets
On 02/06/11 17:28, Chris Rowson wrote:
I've been tinkering with backups and backup rotation today and I have
come across many wierd and wonderful backup scripts of varying
complexity.
Is there anything wrong with using something simple like this? (except
of course for the lack of validation).
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