Thanks, it turns out with Slackware you need to go the rsync route because
of the minimal number of available packages for that distribution as
compared to Debian. I also need to figure out how to hook up properly
with slapt-get to a linuxpackages.net mirror so I can search without going
onto the web site too. I used to know how to do that, but Windows rots
the brain too much.On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Matt Barnes wrote:
If you decide to go the rsync route, here is a small shell script I use at
work that will do incremental backups. It will write to a log file,
recursively do an incremental backup from the specified folder down,
excluding what you specify in a separate "exclude.txt" file.
echo ---------- New ---------- >> log.txt
date >> log.txt
rsync -ravP --exclude-from 'exclude.txt' /dir/to/backup /dir/to/put/backups
log.txt
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
I'll need to be doing local backups and have an external hard drive I can
use for that purpose. I'm using slackware and will check for rdiff-backup
but if that's not found, can anyone share some good rsync commands or
scripts to do proper backup and restore using rsync will need full and
incremental backup information too. I understand /dev /proc /pts and
another directory tree need to have empty directories created in rsync
backups so the system will be able to run after the backup I got this
information from the backup tutorial in dar-docs package on debian. I would
use dar if all I had was zip disks but this external drive is larger than
that. On Thu, 1 May 2008, John covici wrote:
I have been using rdiff-backup lately and its working pretty good for
me -- does not use ftp but rsync and ssh. It is available in at least
Debian, and gentoo.
on Thursday 05/01/2008 Karen Lewellen(klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote
Hi folks,
Wondering about this in theory?
I would guess I would require a dsl connection, something I presently
do not have, but wanted to ask this anyway.
I have a major quantity of files in my shellworld workspace. Last
weekend,
I noticed that almost every file with a certain extension, .mp3, had
disappeared. Given I am both a singer and a radio producer with many
files of critical importance in this format I was not happy. to his
credit, the files were restored, and what was missing is likely in
themail
folders I keep to insure I am covered. to his detriment, no explanation
was offered as to how this happened.
So, I realize the time is coming for me to set up an alternative backup
of my own.
Having this Linux box built has been slower than planned, I do not even
have access to a cd burner yet. However I am wondering if there is a
Linux utility that will let me make scheduled backups from my shellworld
space to my Linux machine via ftp? If so, in which distribution?
Thanks, and if my question is not clear enough let me know.
Karen
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