Helping setting up a proper backup system

scoops98 · 06-19-2005, 04:12 AM

I'm trying to get my life more organised and that has had a knock on effect on the way i organise my computer. I am trying to think of the best to backup my data. I would ideally like a program that can take a 50gig partition and burn it onto multiple DVDS. I used to be able to do this in windoz is there a linux alternative?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

win32sux · 06-19-2005, 10:41 AM

http://www.partimage.org/

bigrigdriver · 06-19-2005, 01:03 PM

http://dar.linux.free.fr/

shengchieh · 06-19-2005, 04:56 PM

http://www.websamba.com/Linux_Docs_Links
-> hardware
-> backup howto

(Some docs)

Sheng-Chieh

Not now, John! · 06-20-2005, 04:40 PM

I use tar utility for incremental backups. Here are scripts I use:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

DATE=`date +%y%m%d`
BCKPDIR="/mnt/extra/backup"
VERBOSE=""

if [ "$1" = "--verbose" ]; then
  VERBOSE="--verbose"
fi

if [ ! -d "$BCKPDIR" ]; then
  echo "Directory $BCKPDIR doesn't exist!"
  exit 1
fi

if [ -f "${BCKPDIR}/sys.snar" ]; then
  if [ ! -s "${BCKPDIR}/sys.snar" ]; then
    FN="${BCKPDIR}/${DATE}-sys-0.tar.gz"
  else
    FN="${BCKPDIR}/${DATE}-sys.tar.gz"
  fi
else
  FN="${BCKPDIR}/${DATE}-sys-0.tar.gz"
fi

if [ -f "$FN" ]; then
  echo "File $FN already exists!"
  exit 1
fi

echo "Starting system backup..."
tar -czf $FN -g ${BCKPDIR}/sys.snar $VERBOSE --exclude="proc/*" --exclude="dev/pts/*" --exclude="dev/shm/*" --exclude="mnt/*" --exclude="var/run/*" --exclude="var/tmp/*" --exclude="tmp/*" --exclude="home/*" -C / .
mv -f ${BCKPDIR}/sys.snar ${BCKPDIR}/${DATE}-sys.snar
echo "System backup ended."

echo "Reducing log files..."
find /var/log -type f -name "*.prev" -print0 | xargs -0 rm
find /var/log -type f -exec mv -f "{}" "{}.prev" ";"
echo "Reducing log files ended."

Code:

#!/bin/sh

DATE=`date +%y%m%d`
BCKPDIR="/mnt/extra/backup"
VERBOSE=""

if [ "$1" = "--verbose" ]; then
  VERBOSE="--verbose"
fi

if [ ! -d "$BCKPDIR" ]; then
  echo "Directory $BCKPDIR doesn't exist!"
  exit 1
fi

if [ -f "${BCKPDIR}/home.snar" ]; then
  if [ ! -s "${BCKPDIR}/home.snar" ]; then
    FN="${BCKPDIR}/${DATE}-home-0.tar.gz"
  else
    FN="${BCKPDIR}/${DATE}-home.tar.gz"
  fi
else
  FN="${BCKPDIR}/${DATE}-home-0.tar.gz"
fi

if [ -f "$FN" ]; then
  echo "File $FN already exists!"
  exit 1
fi

echo "Starting /home directory backup..."
tar -czf $FN -g ${BCKPDIR}/home.snar $VERBOSE --exclude="*/Desktop/Trash/*" --exclude="*/shared/*" -C /home .
mv -f ${BCKPDIR}/home.snar ${BCKPDIR}/${DATE}-home.snar
echo "/home directory backup ended."

scoops98 · 06-22-2005, 01:03 PM

Thank you all for your replies. I will have a look at each one