backups

[Raymond House]

Thanks Bob.
On May 10, 2013 5:21 PM, "Bob Jonkman" <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

> I've bought a few 1, 2 and 3 TByte external USB drives, which were
> cheaper than the equivalent internal drives.  I simply popped them out
> of their enclosures and put them into desktop computers, one of which I
> use as a media  and backup server.
>
> I manually run the following script when I want to make a backup of a
> particular folder structure.  This works for home folders on various
> laptops and desktop computers, as well as the /var/www/ folder on the
> Web server, and the /var/mail/ folder on the mail server...
>
> ===== dobackup.sh =====
> #! /bin/bash
>
> # Program: dobackup
> # Purpose: Perform backup of current directory to backup server
> # Author: Bob Jonkman
> # Date: 5 April 2013
>
> # Note: Current backup server is verne, the media server
>
> # Exclusion file must exist or rsync errors out
> if ! [ -e .rsync-exclude ] ; then
>     touch .rsync-exclude
> fi
>
> # Options: all, verbose, compress file data during transfer, use
> exclusion file .rsync-exclude in current folder, create destination
> path[1]; backup current folder (and children), send to location on
> backup server
>
> # [1] From http://stackoverflow.com/a/14877351 : mkdir with parents of
> destination location; run rsync
>
> rsync -avz --exclude-from=.rsync-exclude --rsync-path="mkdir -p
> /home/bjonkman/backup/$HOSTNAME`pwd` ; rsync" ./
> bjonkman at verne:/home/bjonkman/backup/$HOSTNAME`pwd`
>
> # EOF: dobackup
> =====
>
> You may have to unwrap some of the lines if they've been munged by the
> mailing list, and, of course, substitute your hostname and username
> (unless you're bjonkman at verne too :-)
>
> I keep that script in /usr/local/bin/ so it won't get nuked by upgrades.
>
> For things like my home folder the .rsync-exclude file is something like
> this:
>
> ===== .rsync-exclude =====
> # File: zelazny:/home/bjonkman/.rsync-exclude
> # Purpose: rsync Backup exclude list for host zelazny (Bob's laptop)
> # Author: Bob Jonkman
> # Date: 26 November 2012
>
> Downloads/
> Music/
> Video/
> verne*/
> Trash/
>
> # This should catch both Firefox and Thunderbird cache
> Cache/
>
> # Catch VM live CDs
> *.iso
>
> # Don't recurse into ecryptfs folders
> .ecryptfs/
> .Private/
>
>
> # EOF: rsync-exclude
> =====
>
> Yes, I could use an automated backup system, but I haven't needed to
> scratch that itch yet.
>
>
> Before I used this script I used Ubuntu's 'deja-dup', but something went
> wrong with (one of?) the duplicity files on the backup server. Now that
> whole backup is corrupt.  The nice thing about 'rsync' backups is that I
> can manually copy back any file I want to restore. That's fine as long
> as the backup server is under my control, but I don't recommend that if
> you're using a cloud provider. Then, encrypt all the things:
> https://encrypteverything.ca/
>
>
> --Bob.
>
>
> Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>         http://sobac.com/sobac/
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>
>
> On 13-05-10 03:01 PM, Raymond House wrote:
> > Hi all, what would you suggest for an external storage devise that I
> could
> > use for backing up my files ? I'm using ubuntu 13.04 and unity. I have
> been
> > using Ubuntu One and this way of backing up is just too much of a data
> > gobbler for me, I'm using a Bell internet hub and every 5GB slice is
> > expensive. I have been looking at the Dell 500 GB external hard drive, is
> > this compatible with Ubuntu, your comments, please.
> >
> >
> >
>
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