backup

[Daryl Styrk]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:11:00PM -0700, John Heinen wrote:
> A large retailer is offerering a seagate 250 mb backup hard drive  at a
> fair price, including various programs for backups etc, for windows only.
>  I know very ltitlle about backups except cpoying files to a cd/dvd. How
> would I backup ubuntu and other linuxs to such a drive? John
> 




rsync
rdiff-backup
tar
dd

Are all great starts.  See the man pages for each, and google around for
examples of each.  I personally use rsync and rdiff-backup daily. 

something like 
rsync -avh --progress --delete /home/daryl/Mail /media/disk/Backups/Mail

or

rdiff-backup --exclude ~/Downloads --exclude ~./firefox --include ~/Mail
myhome.server.backup::/home/me/Backups/diffs

Lots of examples out there.. Play around with some fake files/dir (use
touch) to see how everything works. 


-- 
Daryl Styrk
Naples FL, USA