Backups completely filling root drive.

[Tony Arnold]

Larry,

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 18:04 -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote:

> First I want to thank you Tony for helping find out just what was going on.

No problem. It's what this list is all about.

> Before Kubuntu I used Slackware for many years and developed a script 
> called mirror which ran every night.  Mirror would update an identical 
> hard disk that was originally prepared with dd.  The update would be by 
> rsync on two passes.  It ends up kind of like a raid 1 with the added 
> advantage that I have until 4am each day to undo anything I did wrong 
> instead of having mistakes written to both drives immediately.

That's a really neat idea.

> The first pass would rsync (for selected dirs in list) --exclude /home 
> to mnt/kinda1/ and the second would rsync /home to /mnt/kinda1/home.
> 
> I'm going to update this script for Kubuntu which will separate out 
> /home from the / update but still allow me to mount the target disk as 
> /mnt/kinda1 and /mnt/kinda1/home.

Probably won't need much updating, with a bit of luck.

> What do you think of this idea?  Would you comment on the script when I 
> get it done?

A great idea. I'd be happy to comment on the script, but I suggest you
post it to the list so others can comment too if they want.

Regards,
Tony.
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