On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:20:26AM +0200, lee wrote:
> Ethan Rosenberg <eth...@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> > What software would you recommend to backup a Debian system on a
> > stand-alone computer?
>
> That depends on what you want to back up and what the backup media is
> and on a lot of other factors. And what is a stand-alone computer?
I will be less philosophical and assume two things: a stand-alone
computer is a computer without network connection and that you will
backup to an external hard disk.
I have tried various backup programs over the years and have settled
with rsync. To be able to go back to previous versions of files I use a
script like the one below which you can modify for your circumstances.
This will create a top level directory on the destination device
containing the date of the today and move all the changed files to that
directory.
#!/bin/sh
SKYF=/media/mybookext4/
BESTEMMING="$SKYF/`date +'%Y%m%d'`"
sudo mkdir "$BESTEMMING"
sudo chmod 775 "$BESTEMMING"
sudo rsync -CavrxSb --backup-dir=$BESTEMMING --delete \
--delete-excluded --exclude "\.netscape/" --exclude "rugsteun/" \
--exclude "/\.cache/" --exclude "cache/" --exclude ".unison/" \
--exclude "rugsteun/" --exclude "tmp/"\
--exclude "/media/" --exclude dev/ --exclude "sys/" --exclude "proc/"\
--exclude "/home/js/\.beagle/" --exclude "/.thumbnails/" --exclude
"lost+found/" \
--exclude "/home/js/\.gvfs" --exclude "/home/js/\.cache" \
--exclude "/home/js/.local/" --exclude "/var/run/"\
--exclude "Cache/" --exclude "\.Trash/" / $SKYF/artikel/
ja=$?
sudo rsync -CavrxSb --backup-dir=$BESTEMMING --delete \
--delete-excluded --exclude "\.netscape/" --exclude "rugsteun/" \
--exclude "/\.cache/" --exclude "cache/" --exclude ".unison/" \
--exclude "rugsteun/" --exclude "tmp/"\
--exclude "/media/" --exclude dev/ --exclude "sys/" --exclude "proc/"\
--exclude "/home/js/\.beagle/" --exclude "/.thumbnails/" --exclude
"lost+found/" \
--exclude "/home/js/\.gvfs" --exclude "/home/js/\.cache" \
--exclude "/home/js/.local/" --exclude "/var/run/"\
--exclude "Cache/" --exclude "\.Trash/" \
--exclude ".recoll/" /home $SKYF/artikel/
Regards
Johann
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Databestuurder / Data manager
Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie
Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology
Universiteit Stellenbosch.
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is
right." Ephesians 6:1
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