Backup of Banshee 2.6.2 in Ubuntu 14.04

[Petter Adsen]

On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:20:13 -0400
"Donald F. Parsons" <dfp10 at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 07/09/2015 10:26 AM, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Donald F. Parsons <dfp10 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> Can someone inform me of a simple backup method?
> >> Thanks
> > We really need more information to give you any sort of useful
> > answers. I could simply say cp, dd, or rsync. All of those can back up
> > a system in one way or another. I could also say Amanda or Bacula. Or
> > Google Drive.
> >
> > What are you trying to backup?
> > What do you hope to be able to do with a backup should you ever need it?
> > Where do you want to store a backup?
> > --
> > W. Scott Lockwood II
> William,
> My Banshee is a fairly complete data base of Milsteins violin recordings 
> (the contents of 27 CDs in 27 playlists). I want to backup each playlist 
> since it has taken me much time to categorize their contents.
> I will store the playlists under a Banshee volume in my Toshiba Ext 
> repository which now has 456gb of memory free.

The advice William gave you to use rsync is excellent, but you could
also consider backintime. It has a nice GUI frontend, and uses rsync as
it's backend, so you get the same advantages while getting a more
friendly interface to manage backups, set up scheduling and so on. As
the backups are stored as regular files (and hardlinks) in a directory
tree, you can use all the usual tools to restore - you don't have to
install backintime just to restore a few files on another machine.

If the data is important to you, consider making more than one copy -
that is, on more than one other physical media. I would consider using
cloud storage, since this doesn't appear to be private information.
Dropbox is pretty easy to use with Linux, and has file manager
integration.

What format is the music stored as? If they are straight .wav files,
you can save some space by converting them into a lossless format like
flac that has compression. That can be an advantage if you upload to
cloud storage and have a slow uplink.

Petter

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