[OBORONA-SPAM] Re: a question of backup

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Thanks for the responses on this topic. I've had time enough to try a couple 
of these. What I'm really after is a mirror backup program, not full or 
differential or whatever, but just an exact, uncompressed mirror. 

Is there a program able to do this? I maybe answering my own question here by 
saying that I looked at rsync and it may be able to do what I want it to. But 
I don't have the knowledge to to get it to run how I want. If someone is able 
to write me an example script for its execution in creating a fast mirror 
back up (i.e. only copied changed/new files and deletes others NOT recopying 
everything) I'd really appreciate it.

Cheers,
Gabe

On Sunday 26 February 2006 01:07, dave s wrote:
> On Saturday 25 Feb 2006 16:40, gabe wrote:
> > I'm sure I cannot be the only one in this situation. The situation is
> > that I have many gigs of mp3, photos and other stuff. I have these on my
> > /home, naturally. I have an external hard drive that I would like the
> > contents backed up on to, on an automagical basis.
> >
> > I discovered the tool Konserve, which looked promising, however when it
> > insists and creating one massive tarball on each backup it is unusable.
> > Also it creates a new tarball on each backup run, the external drive is
> > only large enough to hold about 1.5 of the full back ups.
> >
> > Back in windows I used "Backup4All" and it would create a mirror backup
> > every 2 hours, only updating the modified, added/deleted files. Which is
> > perfect, since I want the external drive to reflect the contents of
> > /home.
> >
> > Am I out of luck in this regard or is someone please able to point me to
> > a program to solve my problems? I don't want to have to resort to using
> > some kind of Wine configuration!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gabe
>
> Checkout sbackup, its pretty cool
>
> Dave