Scheduled Backups of Home Directory

[Gabriel M Dragffy]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 03:41 +0100, mattskr wrote:
> This is what I do to copy my home directory nightly to a USB hard
> disk...
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> Run -> sudo crontab -e
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> to open roots cron
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> Add this line:
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> * 2 * * * rsync -av --delete --update /home /media/usbdisk
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> Change your output direcotry, close the file, and your done. Been
> working fine for almost a year, and I had restore my files from backup
> once.
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> It backups nightly at 2 AM copying only files that changed and deleting
> any files that have been deleted in /home that day.
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> -- 
> mattskr
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Hi this is a good script and I have been using rsync with a very similar
command for some time now. However, one thing is missing. It backs up to
a USB hard disk and any and all files/folders copied there have the
permissions and ownership changed to the current user AND 755, which is
not the best of things. I've been working on writing a script that will
make a text file listing the permissions of the actual files and letting
this run automatically, but my skill is not good enough - anyone can
help?