backup util

jcombs_31 · 01-13-2005, 09:38 AM

What's the best way to back up my data on slackware?

keefaz · 01-13-2005, 09:49 AM

Could you ellaborate what is a backup for you ?

A basic secure backup is to copy datas from a whole drive to another drive which has exactly the same
specs (same size, model, manufacturer) and which is put in another place.

Now for daily backups or smaller backup, I suggest you to archive datas, then burn them to cd...
I use these tools for that :

- tar (for archiving, example : tar czvf home.tar.gz /home)
- k3b (for burning)
As you can see they are generic tools that not only work in slackware but in all Linux distributions

mdarby · 01-13-2005, 11:50 AM

I use this tar script for system backups

Code:

tar czpf /mnt/backup/OS/`date +%m%d%y_at_%H%M`.tar.gz --exclude=mnt --exclude=proc \
--exclude=sys --exclude=home /

It will compress a 4G install to a 1.5G tarball.