Re: backup script modification help

["Wei Chen" <wchenhk@gmail.com>]

On 6/4/07, Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Haines Brown wrote:
> > I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that
> > I've named "mirror". The script used is:
> >
> > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv
> > /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt
> >
> > Since installing Etch, this script has not worked well because it does
> > not like to backup the /sys directory. Actually, backing up /sys
> > dangerous). So I'd like to modify the script to block cpio from doing
> > /sys as it avoids /proc, but not sure how. Help would be appreciated.
> >
> Try backup2l.  Very simple backup script that automates this for you and
> makes incremental daily backups.

I recommend rdiff-backup. It does incremental backups. It is easy to use
and has powerful statistics displaying functions. I personally use it.

It is in the repository so easy to install. There is detailed document and
sample commands on its Website http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

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Cheers,
Wei
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