On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 21:20 -0500, Eben King wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, steve szmidt wrote:
>
> > On Monday 03 March 2008, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
> >> What is a good way to backup the entire linux system?
<snip>
> > I never back up the whole thing as it's too easy to just reinstall from
> > scratch.
>
> Don't you have data you'd like to keep?
I have two HD's in my work station, at home. One drive is for use, the
other is mounted as /backup. I set my crontab to do this:
1 0 * * * root rsync -avz --delete /home/ /backup
Which copies the /home directory to /backup and deletes any files that
were deleted from /home, one minute after midnight, every night.
I used to only run this weekly. Your cron job may vary.
Logan
-- I've seen these high-tech Japanese toilets before on TV. -- Matt Moen, SLUG List Registered Linux User: 277727
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