Re: [SLE] Can anyone recommend a backup program/script for home user?

From: Bruce Marshall (bmarsh_at_bmarsh.com)
Date: 11/23/03

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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:32:57 -0500

    On Sunday 23 November 2003 12:09 pm, Bernd wrote:
    > I've been seeing the responses on this thread, yet I wonder if I would
    > also have success with rsync.
    >
    > I'm on a standalone, using 9.0 pro.  I would like to backup modified
    > and new files to a seperate partition.  Rsync appears to be for
    > 'sync'ing files over a network.
    >
    > Would it work for me, or is there something better?

    I think rsync is just what you want. Let's assume you want to keep a
    backup of the /home/foo/ directory. So you make a directory
    (hopefully on another drive but for the sake of this example) at /usr/
    local/foo2/

    Then run the command:

    rsync -auvzr --delete /foo/ /usr/local/foo2/

    This is exactly what I use between machines or locally. If to another
    machine I add the parm: -e ssh to use ssh to do the connection.

    The above, run every <once in awhile> will keep /foo2/ in sync with /
    foo/, and it would only copy the new and updated files once you made
    your initial run at it.

    The --delete will delete from /foo2/ anything you have deleted from /
    foo/

    Note the use of the trailing slash. It's important when using rsync to
    copy directories...

    By the way, if you add an 'n' to the mix (-auvzrn) it will show you the
    files that it WOULD copy but it won't actually copy them. For testing.

    man rsync is your friend. 

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