On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:33:06 +0200 Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Steven Rosenberg > <[email protected]> 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
See also rsnapshot. -- Celejar <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
