Simple Backup Config

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/12/24  <accessys at smart.net>:
>
> including /var is what causes the most problems because that is where it
> stores the backup, so if you include /var you keep exponentially keep
> rebacking up your backup and filling your hard drive.  1-2-4-8-16-32-64
> etc.
>
> Bob

Yes, that's probably right, and when that happens you'll probably get
an error message saying that the drive is full. Then you start to
debug your settings and somehow you find out that ”aah, /var shouldn't
be included”, so you edit your settings, erase your drive and try
again. It's not a much bigger deal than that, is it?

By the way, I once included /var in my backups and I never had any
problems with it, except that I thought that it was unnecessary so I
didn't include it the next time I rewrote my backup script (which do
backups for me with rsync, by the way) from scratch. These days I only
backup $HOME and I exclude some folders that only take unnecessary
time to back up.

Johnny Rosenberg


>
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:23:08 +0100
>> From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>>     <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>>     <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: Simple Backup Config
>>
>> 2009/12/23 NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>:
>>> On 12/22/2009 04:43 AM, Kipton Moravec wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>> Look in the menu System -> Administration -> Simple Backup Config
>>>>
>>>> That is where it is on 8.04 LTS. Do not see it installed in the default
>>>> 9.10.
>>>
>>> Please be aware that if not configured properly Simple Backup can easily
>>> fill your hard drive with backup files until you run out of space (check
>>> the archives).
>>
>> What's the problem? If it happens, just erase your hard drive, change
>> your settings and try again. How hard can it be?
>> Of course I assume that when you try things like this the very first
>> times, you use an external EMPTY hard drive (or other kind of external
>> memory).
>>
>> So maybe my suggestion earlier was totally wrong. Will this work?
>>
>> Include: /
>> Exclude: /media
>>
>> Or
>>
>> Include: /home, /var, /etc, /usr, /bin, /lib, /boot, /dev, /initrd,
>> /opt, /proc, /root, /sbin, /srv, /sys
>> Exclude: (Leave empty)
>>
>> The second alternative won't backup files in /, but maybe those few
>> files are not very important.
>>
>> Johnny Rosenberg
>>
>>
>>> So follow the instructions/docs carefully:
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/SimpleBackupSuite
>>> <http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+%2Bsbackup+%2Bdisk+space&btnG=Search&complete=0&hl=en&sa=2>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sbackup/+bug/42142
>>> [sbackup doesn't check for/prevent full disk - 2006 bug that still
>>> hasn't been fixed]
>>>
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