[PLUG] Q: System Backup

Dan Young dan_young at parkrose.k12.or.us
Mon May 27 05:59:09 UTC 2002


Check out rdiff-backup as well.
http://www.stanford.edu/~bescoto/rdiff-backup/
This could be overkill or otherwise inappropriate, but neat nevertheless.
It is written in python, using rdiff to create an rsync-like copy of
current data w/ a configurable number of rolling incrementals.
-Dan Young
-Parkrose School District

> Hmm, thanks, Shannon.  I thought of rsync, but as no one had
> recommended it, I wasn't sure was a viable option.  I guess I'll look
> into it more.  I don't want to waste harddrive space with incremental
> backups, so I was hoping dump could be configured to overwrite changes.
>  But maybe rsync is really what I'm after.
>
> Any thoughts on this?  Will rsync preserve symlinks, permissions,
> ownership, and all that?
>
> --Jason
>
>
> On Sat, 25 May 2002 16:32:14 -0700 (PDT)
> "Shannon C. Dealy" <dealy at deatech.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 25 May 2002, Jason Van Cleve wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>> > Full & incremental backups?  At which levels?  Well, my plan was
>> > just to copy all of /, sans the mounts, /proc, etc., to another
>> > drive initially. Then, every night, I'd just like to update that
>> > copy with any changes
>> [snip]
>>
>> You might also look into rsync, while it's primarily designed for
>> synchronizing disks / directory trees between computers, it also works
>> well between local hard drives and includes nice capabilities for
>> excluding specific files and directories from the transfers.
>>
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