Re: [clug-talk] Backup / short term archive

2014-04-26 Thread Shawn Grover
This has been a great discussion thus far - I've heard about some tools for the first time here. To contribute back, here is the BASH script I use for my backup routines. The magic is that it doesn't try to be a one-stop solution for all scenarios. Instead it expects each scenario to take ca

Re: [clug-talk] Backup / short term archive

2014-04-26 Thread caziz
If you observe regularly then these mods aren't worth the bother rsnapshot would give depth on changes w/o dups after initial full copy, only does complete copies of changed files DAY=$(date -%u) # day number eg 6 instead of Sat mv -iv /home/backup/days/$DAY /home/backup/days/$DAY.prev # the