Dear All
I am looking for a nice program to make backups from the relevant directories on my hard disk to a dvd+rw. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 12:05 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
I am looking for a nice program to make backups from the relevant directories on my hard disk to a dvd+rw. Any suggestions?
Mondorescue? http://www.mondorescue.org/
Thanks in advance,
Paul
On Sat, 2005-03-09 at 12:05 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
I am looking for a nice program to make backups from the relevant directories on my hard disk to a dvd+rw. Any suggestions?
You could use tools supplied with the distro itself, such as tar, but you might find these friendlier and easier to use (though somewhat more difficult to setup):
BackupPC http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Bacula http://www.bacula.org
Mondo Rescue http://www.mondorescue.org/
Any of those would serve your needs. I recommend BackupPC or Bacula.
HTH,
Ranbir
On 9/3/05, Daniel Vogel exed@hotmail.com wrote:
I am looking for a nice program to make backups from the relevant directories on my hard disk to a dvd+rw. Any suggestions?
Im sorry not to give an answer, but why not using only cron? it is because it can't handle writing it to the dvd?
Internally, those programs use cron or similar tools, but they do more. To check it out, just read the features of the programs recommend here, whose recommendation I thank.
Paul
--On Saturday, September 03, 2005 7:19 AM -0700 Daniel Vogel exed@hotmail.com wrote:
Im sorry not to give an answer, but why not using only cron? it is because it can't handle writing it to the dvd?
cron is a scheduling program. It doesn't know anything about files, let alone backup.
The philosophy of Unix has historically been to build lots of little specialized tools and then glue them together with script to create full applications. So cron would typically be used to provide the scheduling part of a larger backup application. The file part might include tar or dump. The DVD part might include cdrecord.
For backups, I like incremental mirroring (using rsync) from disk to disk on a daily basis. Under Linux, every night at 3am, a cron job runs the following backup script:
#!/bin/csh -f # This file goes in /etc/cron.daily/ # The following link must be set up in /: setenv BKP /bkp/ # mirror-like bkp for all evolving Linux partitions: rsync -a /etc /home /root /usr/local $BKP
To arrange this, I merely added the script to /etc/cron.daily/. The directory /bkp/ is a link to a separate backup drive.
I use a similar script to back up to another computer over the Net, where the rsync line is instead
rsync -e /usr/bin/ssh -rlptvvuz <dirs> <remotehost>:~/ | \ perl -e "while (<>) { print unless m/uptodate/ }"
With all this mirroring, I only need to make DVDs/CDs when I want to move something offline.
Julius
On 9/3/05, Paul Smith phhs80@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All
I am looking for a nice program to make backups from the relevant directories on my hard disk to a dvd+rw. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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