If you decide to go the rsync route, here is a small shell script I use at work that will do incremental backups. It will write to a log file, recursively do an incremental backup from the specified folder down, excluding what you specify in a separate "exclude.txt" file. echo ---------- New ---------- >> log.txt date >> log.txt rsync -ravP --exclude-from 'exclude.txt' /dir/to/backup /dir/to/put/backups >> log.txt <div class="gmail_quote"> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Jude DaShiell <<a href="mailto:jdashiel@shellworld.net">jdashiel@shellworld.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'll need to be doing local backups and have an external hard drive I can use for that purpose. I'm using slackware and will check for rdiff-backup but if that's not found, can anyone share some good rsync commands or scripts to do proper backup and restore using rsync will need full and incremental backup information too. I understand /dev /proc /pts and another directory tree need to have empty directories created in rsync backups so the system will be able to run after the backup I got this information from the backup tutorial in dar-docs package on debian. I would use dar if all I had was zip disks but this external drive is larger than that. On Thu, 1 May 2008, John covici wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have been using rdiff-backup lately and its working pretty good for me -- does not use ftp but rsync and ssh. It is available in at least Debian, and gentoo. on Thursday 05/01/2008 Karen Lewellen(<a href="mailto:klewellen@shellworld.net" target="_blank">klewellen@shellworld.net</a>) wrote > Hi folks, > Wondering about this in theory? > I would guess I would require a dsl connection, something I presently > do not have, but wanted to ask this anyway. > I have a major quantity of files in my shellworld workspace. Last weekend, > I noticed that almost every file with a certain extension, .mp3, had > disappeared. Given I am both a singer and a radio producer with many > files of critical importance in this format I was not happy. to his > credit, the files were restored, and what was missing is likely in themail > folders I keep to insure I am covered. to his detriment, no explanation > was offered as to how this happened. > So, I realize the time is coming for me to set up an alternative backup > of my own. > Having this Linux box built has been slower than planned, I do not even > have access to a cd burner yet. However I am wondering if there is a > Linux utility that will let me make scheduled backups from my shellworld > space to my Linux machine via ftp? If so, in which distribution? > Thanks, and if my question is not clear enough let me know. > Karen > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:Blinux-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">Blinux-list@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list</a> -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici <a href="mailto:covici@ccs.covici.com" target="_blank">covici@ccs.covici.com</a> _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Blinux-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">Blinux-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list</a> </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Blinux-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">Blinux-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -Socrates