Thanks everyone, looks like rsync is the way to go, I'll have a look
through the man page when I get the chance.
Yeah, the command history is a lifesaver - a big improvement of DOS
which just saves the command while the window is open!
Cheers
Keith
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From: Keith Buddie <k.buddie@???>
Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:28 PM
Subject: Backup solutions for Ubuntu
To: hampshire@???
Hello all,
I've been on the list for a while but this is my first post so
hopefully it will make sense!
I'm a fairly new user of Ubuntu 7.10 and trying to migrate everything
over from XP - so far everything is going OK but the next obstacle is
getting everything backed up. In Windows, I used a program called
Memeo Autobackup (
http://www.memeo.com/autobackup.htm ) to back
everything up to my network hard drive; it basically scans folders you
set for changes and when it sees a file has changed, sends it to the
network drive.
Admittedly, this was quite resource hungry, esp on my 5 year old
laptop and I don't actually need immediate backups anyway.
So, I've been playing with Flyback (
http://www.howtoforge.com/creating-snapshot-backups-with-flyback-ubuntu-7.10
) but it's not really doing what I want. Firstly, it won't see the
network drive, but I suspect that is down to my lack of understanding
of mounting drives etc.
Aside from that, if I just set it to backup locally as a test it seems
to create a whole new set of backup folders that seemingly contain all
the files every time I press backup (presumably the same would happen
every time the cron job runs) but all I want is a replication of the
folder structure in my home drive with the latest version of the
files.
I don't want the NAS filling up with backups, nor copy Gbs of data
over a wireless network every time a backup is run!
But I'm probably missing something? When I google for linux backup
applications, it seems to me that they are all designed to take a copy
of the whole contents of the folders in question each time. What are
people's experiences/recommendations for doing backups?
Thanks in advance
Keith
