[clue-tech] Linux server, backups...

[Adrian F. Nagle, IV]

Nate reminded me of an important question in another thread I started.  Thank you, Nate!

I have two external hard drives on my Linux server.  What is the easiest way to backup one drive onto another.  Nate was discussing reimaging,  I don't know if that really applies here, since I'm not intersted in the applications.  The drive I want backed up contains only user files (music, text, spreadsheets, etc.)

I was trying "cp -R /*", but that didn't feel right.  rsync seemed overkill, but it's been ages since I used that.

The next step would be to make a cron job of deleting the old and sync'ing a new backup.  I think I've run out of room for two backups at once.

I think I have room on a third drive to add some incremental backups daily for quicker changes.

Adrian


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