Scheduled Backups of Home Directory

Scott J. Henson scotth at csee.wvu.edu
Mon Aug 7 05:55:48 UTC 2006


Gregory PiƱero wrote:
> I want to start running scheduled backups of my home directory.  I
> have my eye on writing a bash script to mount my second hard drive
> (ext3 format) and then run rsync on /home.
> 

Might I suggest a few alternates?  If your using gnome
sbackup or hubackup and if your using kde, I see something
called keep is available.

Since you are looking to mount external media, hubackup
might be the most effective.





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