Re: LInux Backup Strategy? ... a little long.

From: Luca Pireddu (ilveroluca_at_n.o.s.p.a.m.hotmail.com)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 03:45:27 GMT

Jean-David Beyer wrote:

> Bob K. Emery wrote:
>> Is there some way to backup my linux system periodically? Some nice gui
>> like windows has? I want it to be completely backed up so that if the OS
>> gets really screwed up, I can just run a restore and have the system ready
>> to go.
>>
>> I can do that with windows, so I don't know what the problem is, assuming
>> there is one, with linux.
>>
>>
> People ask this every couple of weeks.
>
> You really do not want a GUI to to total backups. You do not even want to
> be there when it is happening because you want to do it when the machine
> is not too busy.
>
> I have _cron_ do it every night when I am asleep. Cron kicks off a shell
> script that does some necessary monkeying around so I can keep tabs on
> what happened, and then runs BRU.
>
> Also, once a month I run CRU, which comes free with BRU. CRU writes two
> floppy disks and a tape. Then when the hard drives on your machine both
> crash when your power supply went overvoltage and burned them out, you
> just replace the hard drives with others at least as big as those, stick
> in the two floppys and the tape and you are back where you were.
>
> But BRU is proprietary and costs a modest amount of money.
>
> So instead of BRU, you can do it with a bunch of _find_ and _cpio_
> commands that are described on the appropriate manual pages. They are
> slightly less convenient, but they are free.
>
>
> To give you an idea of what the shell scripts that _cron_ runs, here is
> the one for my daily BRU backup. The vxatool program dumps the status
> registers in my VXA-2 tape drive in case there was a problem. This script
> is not as complicated as it looks. It does a lot of very simple things.

<snipped the script>

You can take a look at dar (http://dar.linux.free.fr/) and its GUI KDar.

Luca

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