System Backup

[Diego Eduardo Ahumada]

El 21/10/10 10:28, Frank escribió:
> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:48 -0300, Diego Eduardo Ahumada wrote:
>
>> Is there any
>> software integrated with Ubuntu that help to accomplish that?
>
> Hi
>
> As an example, here is what I do for Home Folder and system backup:
>
> To backup my Home Folder to an external USB drive:
>
> rsync -av --delete --exclude=.gvfs
> --exclude=/FolderIdonotCare/  /home/MyUserName/ /media/b8762505-e823-4785-b6b2-6f8300b4d0aa/home/MyUserName
>
> To backup all system files to the same external USB drive:
>
> sudo rsync -va --partial --delete --exclude=/media --exclude=/lost+found
> --exclude=/dev --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys
> --exclude=/tmp
> --exclude=/home/* / /media/b8762505-e823-4785-b6b2-6f8300b4d0aa/
>
>
> Of course, with rsync you can backup to another folder, an external disk
> or over a network.
>
> Another interesting command is 'rdiff-backup'.
>

Thanx! That's very handy. I will save it for later tests.

Diego.