on Sat, Oct 19, 2002, Debian User (debuser@airgazm.com) wrote:
> Would anyone happen to know of a ready made backup (tar) script for a
> debian box, something that I could tell to backup to another drive,
> and make full copies with incremental updates throughout the week.
> Would be nice to have it report to a file too. I have messed around
> with using tar, but don't know enough to make a nice backup script
> yet, maybe someone already has one made up they could hand out. Don't
> want an excessive script, just something that gets to the point.
Read the following page, then modify the associated script to your
system. It's geared toward tape. For drive-to-drive, I'd suggest rsync
rather than tar.
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html
Peace.
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