Which application do you use to backup slackware?

cola · 12-27-2009, 06:52 AM

~sHyLoCk~ · 12-27-2009, 06:55 AM

A custom script in cron with lots of cp commands.

I only backup my configs like .fluxbox, .conky ,etc.

lumak · 12-27-2009, 07:43 AM

can't you just run a tar/compress command with cron on a rotating save?... sure you miss out on a lot of features like, if one wants it to be an optimized backup of only changes, or if one wants to only back up when the computer is not in use and resume later if it is.

bonaire · 12-27-2009, 07:56 AM

Real men do not backup

Rsnapshot for config directories and local package repositories. Git for private data.

samac · 12-27-2009, 08:00 AM

A program called luckybackup has been added to slackbuilds.org

samac

Skaperen · 12-27-2009, 08:30 AM

I use rsync to either a local USB-attached hard drive, or the same over a network.

Woodsman · 12-27-2009, 12:02 PM

I use rsnapshot, cron, and some custom scripts:

A Backup Strategy

Laodiceans · 12-27-2009, 05:52 PM

I use rsync to backup between computers.

piratesmack · 12-27-2009, 06:11 PM

I just use tar and gzip

mRgOBLIN · 12-28-2009, 12:20 AM

Custom rsync scripts utilising hard-links to make efficient use of hard disk space.

haikan · 12-29-2009, 04:17 AM

I use dump (as in dump/restore http://dump.sourceforge.net/) to backup to a tape streamer.

Mark Pettit · 12-29-2009, 04:40 AM

This is my actual backup script - to an attached USB drive :

DRIVE=/media/mybackupdrive/
ionice -c3 nice rsync --exclude-from=/root/excl_root.dat -av --delete / ${DRIVE}

and the contents of the exclusion file are :

root@marklap:~# cat /root/excl_root.dat
/media
/mnt
/proc
/srv
/sys
/tmp

That's it. Fast as hell.

p.s. that trailing "/" on the DRIVE is VERY IMPORTANT :-)