On 12/09/2013 11:15 PM, Christopher Myers wrote:
Personally, this is the shell script I use to back up my server at home. [...]
I also use a little wrapper around "rsync", and have 24 hourly, 7 daily, 4 weekly and 12 monthly backups of my /home partition. The crucial part about such scripts is race conditions: what happens if the machine goes down in the middle of such a backup? Will the next run create a full-blown fresh copy? Or will it cripple older backups? The question with backups is always: against what do you want to protect yourself? Against randomly overwritten/deleted files? Disk failure? Fire? ...? You always have to find the solution which fits your needs. An frequent, incremental backup to a distant machine would probably always be the best, but then you have to think about other issues like bandwidth and security during/after transfer. Never ending discussion, though. Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org