[ubuntu-uk] Backing Up Ubuntu

[Jai Harrison]

There's a small problem with that. Namely that my external HDD is
often not connected to my laptop so automated (as oppose to manual)
backups will most likely fail. Is there something similar but based
around manual backups? Also, do tarballs preserve permissions were I
ever to need to restore it?

2009/1/7 Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>:
> 2009/1/7 Jai Harrison <jai at jaiharrison.com>:
>> I have an external 1 terabyte HDD and would like to back up my Ubuntu
>> system onto it for easy restoration later if I accidentally wipe the
>> internal drive or it fails. Unfortunately my external HDD is using
>> NTFS format (because I would like to be able to allow Windows users to
>> access the drive whilst also storing >4gig files making fat32
>> impossible).
>>
>> My question is is there a way I can back up my entire system onto an
>> NTFS system understanding that it doesn't support Unix permissions or
>> filenames (a lot of characters are illegal on NTFS). Or will I have to
>> resize my NTFS partition on the external drive and create an ext3 on
>> alongside it for storage?
>>
>
> backup-manager is your friend.
>
> Install then (optionally) edit /etc/backup-manager.conf and set
> BM_REPOSITORY_ROOT to the path to your target folder, and set
> BM_ARCHIVE_METHOD to (optionally) "tarball-incremental". Each day it
> will run and backup your system. You'll get a full backup on a
> Saturday, and incrementals (only changes since Saturday through the
> week. I use it for backing up a bunch of machines over the network to
> the network attached storage device whose name I am not allowed to
> utter.
>
> By default it will only backup /home and /etc, but you can change that too.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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