-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/9/2013 6:15 AM, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
I'm used to rsync my home directory to external disc. I also use YaST backup module (I think I can recommend it) to backup any other system data. I then rsync regular backup together with my data. So that I can restore software, settings etc using YaST and my data with rsync. It could make Your backing up easier. All the best, Vojtěch
Its probably redundant for the people on this list, but, at the risk of sounding pedantic, I'll toss it out anyway: Rsync isn't a backup tool. You can delete a mountain of stuff, corrupt a zillion files, and not notice it till AFTER the next rsync run, which will dutifully clobbers your backup in the same way. For years I've been running the (non-free, not cheep) BRU, (tolisgroup.com) and stacking compressed backups on an external drive. I can get a year's worth of backups on that drive. I backup system areas once a month, and user space + data storage daily (changed files only) as well as monthly (all user+data files). Side note: Having moved to Linux from a Novel Netware environment, I really missed the "Salvage" facility that Novel had. It would keep multiple copies of changed files so you could step backward through each changed version of a file till you found the last known good version. So I wrote a little shell script to copy user+critical-data every 10 minutes to a salvage area each date-stamped. It is self maintaining in that it removes the "salvage" files after a period of time sufficient for the the BRU backup to captures them. The storage is requirement is surprisingly minimal. - -- _____________________________________ - ---This space for rent--- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAlKmIrkACgkQv7M3G5+2DLJwbQCeIZruQ6qNLG4ab3RBciRpz6dm D58AmQGABdkJsfLS6vMUYFKT4YucyNGQ =zdy2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org