[thelist] Backing up linux machine

[Ron]

rsync does it all

rsync -av --delete /www /backups/www (be sure to understand what 
trailing back slashes mean to rsync)

I know of no reason you can't use the NTFS mounted partition

other rsync commands to add as needed

--exclude-from=/etc/rsync.exclude
--numeric-ids

in a script you can do something like this
#!/bin/sh
date=`date +%A-%H` 
# the hour only matters if you need it (I backup every six hours in some 
cases)
rsync -av --delete --backup --backup-dir=/backups/rsync-recycle/$date 
/www /backups/www


Mark MacInnes wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> We've recently got a Linux machine for our internal web server - previously
> we had Apache installed on someone's Windows machine. We want to automate
> incremental backing up of the server. We have a huge external HDD, but its
> currently NTFS and I've read that we'd need to create a linux partition so
> the linux server can backup to it. Is this right? Can anyone recommend the
> best way of doing this?
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Mark MacInnes
>