backup

[Darren Upton]

NoOp wrote:
> On 07/06/2009 06:14 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:11:00PM -0700, John Heinen wrote:
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>>> 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
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>> rsync
>> rdiff-backup
>> tar
>> dd
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>> 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
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>> or
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>> rdiff-backup --exclude ~/Downloads --exclude ~./firefox --include ~/Mail
>> myhome.server.backup::/home/me/Backups/diffs
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>> Lots of examples out there.. Play around with some fake files/dir (use
>> touch) to see how everything works. 
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> I have to admit that after several years of reading these posts my eyes
> glaze over when someone posts your advise. I suspect John (and other
> Ubuntu users) will as well. This is not intended to offend you, but John
> stated "I know very ltitlle about backups except cpoying files to a
> cd/dvd". While your suggestions may be excellent for an experienced
> linux/unix user, it probably does little to help John out.
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> So, please provide/point to simple instructions/tutorials if you can.
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> Note: I'm also interested because I'm in process of figuring out how to
> transfer/clone a 20Gb laptop hard drive to a 40Gb networked hard drive,
> and then install a 30Gb hard drive in the laptop & restore from the 20Gb
> backup. This would be similar to John backing up his existing system to
> the new USB drive & restoring it... only difference perhaps would be
> that he is using an attached device while I am using a networked device.
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How about Ghost4Linux http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
or FOG http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOGUserGuide

I haven't tried them myself (yet) so I don't know how much mileage 
you'll get out of either of them.

Darren
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