[thelist] Backing up linux machine

[Ken Schaefer]

Oddly enough, OP didn't ask about ease/simplicity of restoration, which is usually the more important :-)

Cheers
Ken

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> On Wednesday 27 August 2008 02:06, Martin Burns 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.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
> >
> > Cheers
> > Martin
>
>
> In addition to rsync, rsnapshot will make very nice incremental backups. No
> tapes, no need to re-partition anything, no huge disk space requirements. And
> it's fast.
>
> http://www.rsnapshot.org/
>
> If your huge drive is NTFS, then just setup a Samba client so linux can mount
> your NTFS drive. Then run rsync or rsnapshot over to that. The only
> disadvantage is it will not preserve permissions or ownership of the files.
> For that, yes you would need a UNIX-ish filesystem on the backup drive.