On Saturday 22 November 2003 07:29, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I was just about to setup a raid 1 when I realized I didn't want to really accomplish that. What I want is something to backup my system incase I fubar something. So, rather than dd my drive every night, I'm wondering how I can backup my system where only the changed files get backed up rather than the whole drive. I looked at rsync but I'm not sure if that's what I want.
Any advice?
Well, it all depends on where you intend to do the backup. If you have a scsi tape media, then there are tons of backup programs to use. Everywhere from dump, to ... well, you get the picture. Iff, on the other hand, you have a similar setup to most users. You have a normal CD-RW and want to use it to backup your home drive, and btw. there's no need to backup the system, except for the changes to the original system, which can be done best with SuSE's backup tool. You can make it write the files, already prepared for burning to a CD. If you have lot of diskspace, this can also be your normal backup tool To backup your home directory, I suggest cdbkup. It's a sourceforge project, and does full and incrimental backups to a CD. I used it to backup my home directories, before I made an upgrade to SuSE 9.0.