Hi,

I try to back-up /home by copying it to an other hdd, but I run into problems since I always get an error message saying that it can't chown permissions and it doesn't copy the link.
This means it only copies a small part of the directory to the other disk.
Is there a way to do it so it copies everything?

Anne

I've allready found my answer here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+b...=en&lr=lang_nl|lang_en&ie=UTF-8&selm=miqln9.0p4.ln%40localhost.localdomain&rnum=1

Anne

One of the clunky commands I use (stolen from a RAID setup HowTo) is (from the /home directory) 'find . -xdev | cpio -pm /backup_directory'. This basically just scours the current directory and subs, pipes it into 'cpio' keeping the permissions and preserving the original file modification times (instead of the time it was backed up). If you were to run this same command tomorrow it would skip any files where the target modification time is same or newer than the source - ie: it would only back up new files and files modified since the last backup.

There are also several good scripts for creating .tar.gz (compressed into a single file) archives. You can probably see some examples of these in your /etc/cron.xxxxx directories.

For debian there's a package called 'faubackup' which can keep a generational backup set to a writable directory of your choice and be easily included to your crontab to execute daily.

And of course there's 'amanda' - it's a very advanced and configurable tool for making backup sets for one machine or a whole network of them. Google for it.

Thanxx for the info!

Anne