[ubuntu-studio-users] Ubuntu Studio 13.10 released

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 09:29 +0100, Angel de Vicente wrote:
> leo <leokn at yahoo.com> writes:
> > Right now I am trying to figure out the best regimen for what exactly, and how, to make backups.
> > I have a handful of 4GB and 32GB SanDisk thumbdrives, and my 2 SATA hard drives, and Ubuntu One, as well as DropBox.
> http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php

>From another installed Linux I run a script and copy the complete
install to a compressed tar archive to an external USB HDD. I also made
backups of the drives MBRs. If you use wildcards take care about
globbing.

You could copy installs and data from your SATA 1 to your SATA 2 and
vice versa, but this isn't a backup by definition. A backups has to be
done to an external device. Thumbdrives aren't save backup medias.

[satire]
I wouldn't use a cloud to store any private data. Sure the NSA has got
backups of what is stored by dropbox, so theoretically if your drives
should fail and the drives of the dopbox servers should fail, the NSA
could provide a backup for you, but in reality they don't give it to
you. Remember the journalist who called the NSA and ask them to sent him
the stored mail he deleted "by accident" on his machine. You might say,
but there are not only backups of clouds available by the NSA, they are
also available by different mafias, sure, but likely you don't have a
phone number to call them and ask them to help you, if if your drives
should fail and the drives of the dopbox servers too.
[/satire]


#!/bin/bash
# bash bak_q_arch

BACKUP_DIR_Q="/media/u1.linux/2013-Oct"
BACKUP_DIR_A="/media/data2/2013-Oct"

function stopwatch_start
{
  STARTED=$(date +%s)
  if [ "$A_STARTED" = "" ] ; then
    A_STARTED=$STARTED
    echo ; echo -n "$BACKUP backup started at "; date -d @$STARTED
  else
    echo "$BACKUP backup starting now."
  fi
}

function stopwatch_stop
{
  DONE=$(date +%s)
  ((MIN=(DONE-STARTED)/60)) ; ((SEC=(DONE-STARTED)%60))
  for ((i=1; i<=$SPACE; i++)) ; do echo -n " " ; done
  echo -n "           done at "; date -d @$DONE
  printf "attended time: %3d:%02d\n" $MIN $SEC ; echo
}

cpufreq-set -g ondemand
mkdir -p $BACKUP_DIR_Q; #mkdir -p $BACKUP_DIR_A
clear
echo "Mount /media/u1.linux   Backup partition"
#echo "      /media/data2      Backup partition 2 for MBRs"
#echo "      /media/q          Ubuntu Quantal"
echo "      /media/archlinux  Arch Linux including mails"
#echo "      /media/archlinux  Arch Linux /home including mails"
echo "and press enter to continue."
read any_pushed_key

BACKUP_NAME_ADD=$(date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
A_STARTED=""
#BACKUP="Ubuntu Quantal"
#SPACE=${#BACKUP}
#cd /media/q
#stopwatch_start
#tar czf $BACKUP_DIR_Q/ubuntu_q_$BACKUP_NAME_ADD.bak.tar.gz *
#stopwatch_stop

#BACKUP="MBRs"
#SPACE=${#BACKUP}
#stopwatch_start
#cd $BACKUP_DIR_A
#dd if=/dev/sda of=MBR_sda-$BACKUP_NAME_ADD bs=512 count=1
#dd if=/dev/sdb of=MBR_sdb-$BACKUP_NAME_ADD bs=512 count=1
#dd if=/dev/sdc of=MBR_sdc-$BACKUP_NAME_ADD bs=512 count=1
#cd $BACKUP_DIR_Q
#dd if=/dev/sda of=MBR_sda-$BACKUP_NAME_ADD bs=512 count=1
#dd if=/dev/sdb of=MBR_sdb-$BACKUP_NAME_ADD bs=512 count=1
#dd if=/dev/sdc of=MBR_sdc-$BACKUP_NAME_ADD bs=512 count=1
#stopwatch_stop

BACKUP="Arch Linux"
SPACE=${#BACKUP}
cd /media/archlinux
stopwatch_start
tar czf $BACKUP_DIR_Q/archlinux_$BACKUP_NAME_ADD.bak.tar.gz * .chuser
#cp -p home/rocketmouse/winOS/matrix-1000-0.13.10.08-1i.txt
$BACKUP_DIR_Q
stopwatch_stop

#BACKUP="Arch Linux .chuser"
#stopwatch_start
#tar czf $BACKUP_DIR_Q/archlinux_$BACKUP_NAME_ADD.chu.tar.gz .chuser
#stopwatch_stop

#BACKUP="Arch Linux /home excluding vdis"
#cd /media/archlinux/home
#stopwatch_start
#tar --exclude=winOS.vdi --exclude=systemd.vdi -czf
$BACKUP_DIR_Q/arch_home_$BACKUP_NAME_ADD.bak.tar.gz *
#stopwatch_stop

#BACKUP="start-session"
#stopwatch_start
#cp -p /media/music/quantal/02song.a/start-session start-session_
$BACKUP_NAME_ADD.bak
#stopwatch_stop

#BACKUP="Arch Linux winOS.vdi"
#cd /media/archlinux/home/rocketmouse/VirtualBox\ VMs/winOS
#stopwatch_start
#tar czf $BACKUP_DIR_Q/archlinux_$BACKUP_NAME_ADD.osv.tar.gz winOS.vdi
#stopwatch_stop

#BACKUP="Arch Linux systemd.vdi"
#cd /media/archlinux/home/rocketmouse/VirtualBox\ VMs/systemd
#stopwatch_start
#tar czf $BACKUP_DIR_Q/archlinux_$BACKUP_NAME_ADD.syv.tar.gz systemd.vdi
#stopwatch_stop

((MIN=(DONE-A_STARTED)/60)) ; ((SEC=(DONE-A_STARTED)%60))
echo ; echo -n "First backup started at "; date -d @$A_STARTED
echo -n        "Last  backup    done at "; date -d @$DONE
printf "attended time for all backups: %3d:%02d\n" $MIN $SEC ; echo

exit 0