At 03:30 AM 11/04/2006, you wrote:
Op ma, 10-04-2006 te 18:03 +0200, schreef houghi:
The reason is that I do not want a GUI tool for backups. So what are you using that is on SUSE itself? Or do you run your own script? Have I overlooked some great script that is available?
I use rsync. rsync -avptgoHq --delete-excluded '/home/chris' '/etc' '/boot' '/usr/local' '/opt' /backup
I run this as root. With the options "-avptgoHq --delete-excluded" given to rsync, rsync makes a backup of all the data and kepps all the file permissions intact, and also deleted data that was deleted from the sources since the last backup.
I've put this in a bash script that will mount the backup drive runs rsync then unmounts the backup drive and then runs "shutdown -h now" (i turn off my computer every day).
I also have the backup drive not mounted during boot, so that when the system crashes, the backup drive will not be corrupted.
Chris Maaskant.
please would you be willing to share the total script (text not attachment please) it saves reinventing the box if we just have to do local changes thanks scsijon