[AuckLUG] Backup

[Michael]

If you can write shell  scripts - do it! and you will know exactly
what , how  and where files backed up.

I use afio instead of tar .
sample script to backup home dir to DVD ( exclude firefox cache )
===
DIRTOBACKUP="/home"   # or more dir  "/root /usr /var /home /etc"
find $DIRTOBACKUP -depth -print |\
  grep -i -v '/cache/' |\
  grep -i -v '/cache4/' |\
afio -ovZz -B -b 2048 '!growisofs -speed=16 -use-the-force-luke=tty -Z
/dev/dvd=/dev/fd/0'
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Alaric <um.167 at xtra.co.nz> 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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