Re: Backup Strategies for linux?
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 02:14:38PM +0530, Deboo wrote:
> What is the best way to backup on linux, with a 250M zip drive? I
> have tried many backup programs but I wish to have something
> semi-automatic kind of thing. I have used ibackup, bu (script),
> kbackup, floppybackup, and few others but am not satisfied with
> them. What I need is something that would regularly (thru cron or
> anacron or something else), compress the dir in to a zip file,
> optionally encrypt it, copy it on to a zip disk and then log on to
> a webdav or ftp server and transfer this file automatically there?
> What is the best way to have this kind of backup done?
Why not use afio (or tar) with scp for this. You drop a very short
script in /etc/cron.d/ .
Here is one for CD but you get an idea.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s9.3.9
Also basics are:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-archiving
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