Thatcher Ulrich, 2002-Oct-04 00:50 -0400: > On Oct 04, 2002 at 11:50 +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am running woody v3 / 2.4.18 on an old tosh laptop. > > > > It is the only linux box I have at the moment, and I was wondering how I > > should go about backup it up. > > > > I have heaps of diskspace on various win2k boxes, perhaps I could tar what I > > want and ftp it. > > > > Is there some software which will backup specified folders only, and some > > config files, some email and stuff like that. > > > > Any ideas ? > > I have a household firewall/server with a CD-R drive, and I use a > combination of cdbackup and tar on the server to pull files from my > laptop via ssh, and record backup CD's. Unfortunately I'm away from > home so I can't give you my scripts, but they're pretty simple, just a > couple lines of shell commands to tar the directories I want, and feed > them right into cdbackup. > > tar'ing your stuff and storing it on some other computer's hard drive > works fine as well. tar has plenty of options for selecting the dirs > you want; excluding others, etc. Just read the man page for ideas.
Here's a slick little script to tar and compress specified dirs: <bof> #!/bin/bash SRCD="/home/jeff/Mail" TGTD="/var/backups/" OF=mail-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz tar -cvzf $TGTD$OF $SRCD <eof> This will tar and compress my Maildirs into a .tgz file and put it in /var/backups. Then I ftp or scp the file to another system or burn it to CD. Personally, I have several Debian systems, so I use rsync to keep copies of certain directories on another system along with tar files from the script above. For the Windows systems, I backup to CD-RW and rotate 2 CD-RW disc's. I figure the odds of the 2 Debian systems failing at the same time are pretty low, especially since one's at the office and another is at home. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
