Chris G wrote:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 08:19:54AM +0000, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
On 21/11/2007, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:53:59PM +0000, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
On 20/11/2007, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
So I suspect I need a backup solution which packs up the files to be backed up into some sort of archive file and then just copies that file across to the server. Does anyone here use a backup solution of this sort and/or know any good ones?
Have you looked at dirvish? If you back up in bundles you may find your disk filling up very quickly, but dirvish uses an incantation of rsync runes that 'simply work'.
... but one of my basic issues is that rsync doesn't work for anything except very 'ordinary' files when saving to my network server.
I've been using dirvish over a secure network for a few years now: I'm not sure what you class as a 'non'ordinary' file but it certainly handles symlinks perfectly happily.
That depends on the destination system surely.
My Network Drive is a Samba server which, among other things, does not support "unix extensions". I have to disable the unix extensions for the drive to be mountable at all by doing:-
echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabledHaving done this when you do an rsync copy of (for example) my home directory to the network Drive there are lots of errors, I can reduce them by telling rsync not to try and create symlinks but I still get some other errors that I can't clear at all. No doubt rsysnc is actually copying nearly everything I want copied but I could do with a 'cleaner' solution.
I happened to be looking at Bash scripts yesterday, as beginning the extensive learning curve from win to nix... but i remembered seeing a "simple" backup script, that archives and then dumps the archive somewhere (assuming it will be able to dump a archive on your smb mounts) anyway if it helps then all is good, if not sorry! he he!
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html --> Example A-15