On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Steven Rosenberg <stevenhrosenb...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAK00fOKBKyTP6U=8-zdsv8+ttqhxtfg73nterowbmwgtadw...@mail.gmail.com
