Re: Debian backup
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Steven Rosenberg
<stevenhrosenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/17/2012 03:39 AM, Mostafa Hashemi wrote:
>>
>> hi guys
>> hope u all be OK :D
>>
>> i want to take a backup from my Debian, or it is better to say take a
>> dump (like FreeBSD). what should i do ? i am new to Debian ....
>> i checked out luckybackup , but it just copies files (backs them up) ....
>
>
> I use rsync on all Linux/Unix platforms. I have little shell scripts set up
> so I don't have to remember every little command switch every time.
>
> I generally rsync to a USB-connected hard drive.
>
> Rsync is well worth learning and using.
My vote is for rdiff-backup http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ It is
the same as rsync but it keeps the diffs of old backups.
It stores the incremental differences (like SVN or GIT). Therefore you
can restore a document as it was in a previous backup. I find that the
best is to do incremental backups. How about you delete a file, do
your backup... and then realized that the file that you deleted is
important! but you can not find it anymore in your backup because you
did a rsync...
You can find rsync and rdiff-backup in any distribution. But rsync is
way more common
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