[thelist] Backing up linux machine

Bill Moseley moseley at hank.org
Wed Aug 27 04:17:49 CDT 2008


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:09:45PM +0100, Mark MacInnes wrote:
> The server is running Centos 4. I can't find anything on there to
> incrementally backup the machine - we're planning on using cronjob to
> automate this so we have the automation bit planned out. Can anyone
> recommend a program to do this, or commands or maybe a tutorial? Searching
> google provides limited results - I assume I'm not searching the right
> terms.

This is a bit dated, but worth a read:

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Depending on your needs, there's also rdiff-backup

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Bill Moseley
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