rsbackup tutorial availability

[Jay Ridgley]

Bo,
  I moved my reply to the top, per standard.

  I used synaptic, which should be part of the Ubuntu 18.04 that was 
installed. Search in applications for synaptic.

  It installed without any problems. However, that is all I have to work 
with. I did take a peek at the man page but still have a BUNCh of questions.

Hope this helps...

Cheers,
Jay
On 9/13/21 5:01 AM, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:52:34 -0500, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> I would like to set up a backup for my system that will store the files
>> necessary file to allow me to do a restore if my upgrade from 18.04 LTS
>> to 20.04 LTS should fail to work properly. I also plan on using the
>> package for my periodic backups.
>>
>> My system runs on a single hard drive (all ubuntu linux) /dev/sda1 at
>> mount point /
>>
>> The target for the backup is a directory on a Western Digital My Book
>> drive named polar.
>>
>> I have installed rsbackup is there a tutorial for setting up a basic
>> configuration file?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jay
> 
> Strange that this thread deals with the exact problem I am struggling with...
> I also asked here:
> How to backup before a release upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS server?
> 
> And I got several answers including a suggestion to use rsbackup.
> Could you say *how* you installed it?
> 
> The way I have seen involves downloading files from www.greenend.org.uk and
> using those rather than installing with apt, which I normally do in order to
> make sure the package stays updated via apt.
> 
> Furthermore, I need the target for storing the backups to be an nfs mounted
> share on a Synology NAS on my network and I could not find any good advice on
> how to do that...
> In the manual in section "2.2.1 Backup Storage" they discuss this but I do not
> understand how to use a NFS mount...
> 
> Are you going to use a USB connected removable drive as target instead? If so
> how is that drive formatted? FAT32, NTFS or ext4?
> I believe that there are differences depending on the drive format for rsbackup.
> 
> 


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