On Saturday 08 December 2007 06:44:06 Rodney Baker wrote:
Rsync is better for doing things like incremental backups. I use a home-grown script run from a cron job to do a nightly backup of my home directory to a second hdd on the same machine. It isn't a pretty script (in fact, it's pretty crude) but it does the job that I need it to do. It consists of only one line:
rsync --logfile=/var/log/home_backup -Ca /home/<username> /backup/<username>.
This just compares each file in /home/<usersname> with its corresponding file in /backup/<username> and copies any that are new or have changed, resetting the archive bit for each file. I also have set up the log file in logrotate so that it rotates the logs and keeps 5 days worth.
There are probably plenty of flaws in this backup method (I wouldn't use it in a business situation
Whyever not?
- I'd write something a little more sophisticated or run a commercial backup solution)
Which could well be based on rsync.
but for my needs at home it works fine.
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