Re: Backup/Restore software?
add -z to that rsync command and you get your data compression. Also,
it's the source and destination that count here. If your source is backed
up and compressed then all you have to do to effect a restore operation is
use the original destination as the next source and the original source as
the second destination and uncompress the data on the way back.On Thu, 11
Jul 2013, David Guntner wrote:
> Jeff Bauer grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> > On 07/11/2013 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote:
> >> Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I
> >> described above?
> >
> > I know of no such package, though there very well may be one available.
> > On the other hand, a simple back up script using rsync can do the trick
> > for you. And example to back up your home stuff:
> >
> > # backup /home
> > #
> > echo --------------
> > echo rsyncing /home
> > echo --------------
> > rsync -avz /home /mnt/sda1/debian_backup
> > # end
> >
> > Using that for /home and other directories take care of the backing up.
> > For scheduling, you can "tell" your computer to do whatever you want,
> > whenever you want, with cron.
> >
> > The learning curve will be pretty gentle with both writing said script
> > and setting up cron. YMMV.
>
> Already know how to do that. :-) Backing up /home is nice, but what I
> want is something that will backup (and compress, or this just doesn't
> work) everything from / down. Like I said, what I need is to be able to
> do a weekly full backup, followed by daily incrementals (which save only
> those files changed since the last backup (which would be the last
> incremental or full in this case)).
>
> I want to be able to restore a file as it was yesterday or maybe even a
> few days ago; but I also need something which will put the whole system
> back together in case of a hard drive crash or whatever. The idea being
> to save time from having to do a full install, with updates, and then
> reinstall specific packages, then change all the config files that need
> changing to work on my system (dovecot, postfix, etc.) and so on.
> Otherwise, it's pretty pointless from my standpoint.
>
> I do appreciate the suggestion; don't get me wrong. It's just that what
> you suggest above doesn't fill my particular need. Hopefully someone
> here will have heard of something which can be used to do what I need.
> :-) And I'll keep looking, of course. <grin>
>
> --Dave
>
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