On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 16:17 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
In a previous message, "Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)"
wrote: # Remove old backup image rm -dr /data4/
# Copy certain directories to HDD and PRESERVe permissions cp -a /home /data4/home cp -a /etc /data4/etc
Better (i.e. faster) would be to use rsync, because this only copies what's changed since the last backup. I use a script I picked up from somewhere called make-backup - it's possibly worth googling for that name together with rsync to get the original. Failing that, I can pass it along. (It's headed "mike's handy rotating-filesystem-snapshot utility" and seems to be created by "mrubel".) Tnx for the idea but I think I'll concentrate on Joe's idea of storebackup for now. Whilst rsync may be faster becos it is 'skipping' so many files, I would prefer that ALL the files were copied, even if
John Pettigrew wrote: they hadn't changed.
But if you are copying all of the files to the -same- place every time there is -no- need to copy unchanged files. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998