[AuckLUG] Backup

[Kiirani]

I use rdiff-backup, cron, and a (rather terrible) python script for my
gentoo machine. Attached is the script, you might find it useful.
Don't ask me how it works, I've long forgotten. But you should be able
to fill the lists with whatever you want to back up and all will be
well.

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

2008/6/12 Liz Q <liz at debian.co.nz>:
>
> try looking at rdiff-backup
> Though not overly automated and gui-ish
> Liz
>
> Alaric wrote:
>>
>> Sorry I keep asking silly questions.  Can anyone point me to a backup
>> programme?  I tried the internet but all I could find were programmes
>> for large networks or requiring more programming than I can do.  I run
>> Mandriva 2008 courtesy of Linux Magazine.  I have always used drakbackup
>> and I did a restore about three years ago without trouble.
>>    Last month my hard drive went down and after I had re-installed 2008 on the new drive I tried to do a restore and ran into awful problems.
>>    Drakbackup would not recognize my pocket drive, when it did it resisted restoring and when I got it to restore it restored only two out of three backup files but none of the incrementals.  It placed one file in the designated directory and the other on the pocket drive where the
>> backups were stored.  It took me days to get the command line to
>> recognize the extracted directories so that I could change the ownership
>> and permissions and even then there were problems with copying back to
>> my home directory.
>>    I could write a shell script to back up using tar.  I think I know how to do incrementals and pipe output to the apprpriate device or directory.
>>    I don't want to start a flame war over distros but I do wonder whether I should ditch 2008 and revert to 2007 Spring, even though it does not recognize my scanner.  2008 appears to have some very odd features including regularly crashing sub systems like kdedit which hasn't happened to me since I was using Mandrake 9.2
>>
>>
>> Alaric
>>
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