Incremental backups

[Maxime Alarie]

Thanks Paul.  I have Googled a little bit, and found this Oreilly Book called Backup and Restore. In that book I have found a chapter on rsnapshot and rdiff-backup.

 

I just tried rdiff-backup and its pretty nice..

 

All you have to do is  rdiff-backup  source  destination  and to restore:  rdiff-backup –r now source destination.  

 

Here is a link to the book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102463/preview#preview

 

Regards,

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of pkaplan1 at comcast.net
Sent: 18 May 2010 10:28
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: Incremental backups

 

I've been using a bash script I found at:

http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html

 

Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: "Maxime Alarie" <malarie at processia.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 10:11:32 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Incremental backups

Hi,

 

I use Karmic 9.1 server, no UI!    

I have a server with about 40GB of important documents  on it.  I have setup a cronjob to backup a  filesystem  every night.. But now I would like to implement incremental backups every day. Because its starting to take too much space..

 

The way I do it at the moment is  that I tar.gz the file system  and then I rsync to  sdb1. Once a week I rsync sdb1 with an external  disk…

 

I wondering if any of you know a good way to  setup incremental backups using nothing but the shell, since I have no UI on that server..

 

Thanks.

 

 


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