Dear Bill, in message <46FD1442.70707@xxxxxxx> you wrote: > > Be aware that rsync is useful for making a *copy* of your files, which > isn't always the best backup. If the goal is to preserve data and be > able to recover in time of disaster, it's probably not optimal, while if > you need frequent access to old or deleted files it's fine. If you want to do real backups you should use real tools, like bacula etc. > Now you can do an incremental (since last full or incremental) or > partial (since last full): > > touch bkup_incr_new > timestamp=$(date +%Y%m%d-%T) > find /home -cnewer bkup_incr | cpio -o -Hcrc | > gzip -3 >/mnt/USBbkup/incr-$timestamp && > mv -f bkup_incr_new bkup_incr > > timestamp=$(date +%Y%m%d-%T) > find /home -cnewer bkup_full | cpio -o -Hcrc | > gzip -3 >/mnt/USBbkup/part-$timestamp Now have Johnny Loser downloading some stuff, say: $ wget -N ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.12.tar.gz Are you aware that this file will never be backed up by your script? Also, what about permission / owner changes etc.? A backup tool should never work based on timestamps alone. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away. - Terry Pratchett, _Sourcery_ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
