Simple Backup problems

[Brian McKee]

2009/5/15 Edgars Šmits <ed.smits at gmail.com>:
> I'm running Jaunty and have a windows share of 6.7GB auto mounting to
> a directory in my home partition. I need to back this directory up on
> a weekly basis to another partition on my Ubuntu box.

There is a list of some possiblities here -

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MailingListFAQs/CloningandBackups

Personally I think rsnapshot from cron is the way to go.  Backups
should be automated where ever possible.
If you find rsnapshot too much, a simple rsync -avz source destination
should get you what you need.

Biran


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