Archiving/backup tool

[Scott Medling]

rsync is great for lots of small files and you can hard link to get the
incremental backups (it's what I use so let me know if you want my script
and I'll post the current source online), but for huge (2GB) files, I might
look into rdiff-backup since it only stores the differences instead of both
files as rsync and hard linking would do.  The downside to using
rdiff-backup is that the increments are stored as diff files and so are not
fully browseable.  So far, there is no free software I know of that lets you
have your cake and eat it too.

Oh, and cron is the best for regular scheduling if you always have the
external drive on and connected, otherwise you just need to remember.

-Scott

On 4/17/07, Karl-Heinz Schulz <karlheinz at khschulz.com> wrote:
>
> I use rsync and cron
>
> rsync -avu /var /backup  --report /etc/cron.daily
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Ed Smits
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:36 PM
> To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions
> Subject: Archiving/backup tool
>
> I have a 20 GB home directory that I'd like to back up to my external
> USB drive, and then do incremental backups once a week or so
> there-after. What is the suggested best way to do this? Besides the
> normal files there are also 8 2GB VMWare virtual disk files in the
> mix. I tried to create a tarball out of it, it errored out on the
> size.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> ED
>
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