rsync backup

[Chris]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:47:37 -0700
"Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brian Craft wrote:
> > I use rsync both at work and home for daily backups.   For my
> > laptop at home that has a separate partition just for backups, I
> > wrote the following script file and then set a cron job to run each
> > morning at 2am.  I'm not excluding anything, but here is what I'm
> > using. I just put the following in a new file and name it backup.sh
> > (make it executable).
> > 
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > 
> > rsync -avh /home/brian/ 
> > /media/b0f19085-3ada-4af8-b201-6f53cdd73899/ubuntu910backup/
> > 
> 
> 
> 	Unless I don't understand, your backup is just for the 
> /home/brian directory. I can do that. But what I want is a 
> complete backup of this computer.
> 
> Karl
> 
> > 
> > Hope that helps
> > 
> > Brian Craft
> > 
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> > 
> > Karl Larsen wrote:
> >> 	I have lost the little thing I used to call for a backup
> >> of my linux. I was using rsync -avg /  exempt/media exempt/dev  . 
> >> .. /media/disk-1, or something like that.
> >>
> >> 	I have looked at man rsync which is confusing, and tried 
> >> Google but their info is trivial.
> >>
> >> 	Is anyone using something like this?
> >>
> >> Karl
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>   
> > 
> 
> 

If you want super simple and have say an 8 or 16 gig thumb-drive, you
could use Clonezilla.

It'll only create an image of the data used on the system (the whole
system - follow-up with the Clonezilla site for details).

I use it once a week to create a "snapshot" that I have go to a terra
drive. My system runs on a 400 gig base drive and if I choose to, can
have Clonezilla save it to my thumb-drive. For me, it's only about 5 gig
and fits well within my 8 gig thumb-drive

-- 
Best regards,

Chris

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