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

[Angelo Bertolli]

Adrian F. Nagle, IV wrote:
> 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.
>   
 rsync is definitely not overkill... it's very simple, especially if you 
just want to make a mirror of selected directories.  For incremental 
backups, you should use something like rdiff-backup which will is fairly 
straightforward.

Angelo