backing up stuff

nehsa · 2005-03-06 21:47:00

Whats a good way to back things up? I want to cp certain files to another computer so that incase I screw something up I can recover quickly. While I'm at it I'd like to backup mail and other things too. Is that something I'd use cron for? Sounds like that's what rsync does to.

Don't need any indepth respond, just general direction.

Thanks

cactus · 2005-03-06 21:50:42

I use tar to manually back things up. I don't have alot of super important data that requires consistent automation..

i3839 · 2005-03-06 21:56:39

Someone recommended hdup somewhere.

T-Dawg · 2005-03-06 22:23:20

http://miek.nl/projects/hdup16/hdup16.html

oscar · 2005-03-06 23:03:35

I use a application called flexbackup to go regular backups (with a cronjob) on some important things on a server of mine.

You can find it http://www.edwinh.org/flexbackup/ <--- there.
I used http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup <--- that guide to set everything up - but the conf is pretty well documented.

Good luck!

chane · 2005-03-06 23:04:55

We are using a relatively new backup utility called boxbackup (http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/). We've been using it for a while now and really like it.

I have a package build for it at work if your interested. I can post it here, just let me know....

Chris....

jerem · 2005-03-07 08:04:36

I would use good ol' tar.

Don't forget to tar your /etc, that's the most important.

And if disk space is not a problem, you could even tar up your whole system (you could use gzip, it's faster yet bigger)

tar -cvjpf /mnt/whatever/whatever.tar.bz2 / --exclude=/mnt/* --exclude=/var/run/* --exclude=/var/cache/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=whatever.tar.bz2

To recover your backup, dont forget to set up grub and to have enough space on your partitions. You will have to edit your fstab if you changed you disk layout.

You could also try to use dd if you want to save your partitions in a ghost-like manner

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=disk.img | gzip

or something like that

iphitus · 2005-03-07 08:23:13

I made myself a bash script that copies set folders to my external drive every night at 9pm - why then? cause my computer is always on

#! /bin/bash
backupdir=`grep -c backup /etc/mtab`
if [ $backupdir==1 ]; then
  echo `date +%d/%m/%Y - %k:%M` : Starting backup >> /home/iphitus/.backup/log
  backupdate=/mnt/backup/`date +%d.%m.%Y`
  mkdir $backupdate
  for directory in `cat /home/iphitus/.backup/dirs`
  do
    echo `date +%d/%m/%Y - %k:%M` : Copying Directory: $directory >> /home/iphitus/.backup/log
    cp -a $directory $backupdate
    echo `date +%d/%m/%Y - %k:%M` : $directory Complete. >> /home/iphitus/.backup/log
  done
  echo `date +%d/%m/%Y - %k:%M` : Backup Complete >> /home/iphitus/.backup/log
  rm -r /mnt/backup/backup
  mkdir /mnt/backup/backup
  cp /home/iphitus/.backup/* /mnt/backup/backup/
fi
if [ $backupdir==0 ]; then
    echo `date +%d/%m/%Y - %k:%M` : Backup failed: Partition Not mounted. >> /home/iphitus/.backup/log
fi

config file:

/home/iphitus/Documents/Documents/
/home/iphitus/pycast
/home/iphitus/Graphics
/home/iphitus/serverb

How it works?
checks if partition is mounted, then copies the stuff listed in the config file ~/.backup/dirs to the set place. yeah i know it sucks, but it works and maybe it'll work for whoever else uses it.

marcob · 2005-04-20 21:42:57

chane wrote:

We are using a relatively new backup utility called boxbackup (http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/). We've been using it for a while now and really like it.
I have a package build for it at work if your interested. I can post it here, just let me know....
Chris....

Boxbackup submitted to AUR.

Server:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … SB=n&PP=25

Client:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … SB=n&PP=25

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backing up stuff

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