[K12OSN] low tech solution needed for backing up home directories

[Lewis Holcroft]

I found this link very useful.

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

It's very detailed. I used this link as the base to backup my system to 
a removable hard drive. But the drive does not have to be removable.

Lewis

On Mar 15, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Carl Keil wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Does anyone have a nifty solution for backing up home dirs?  All the 
> users are using Samba only.  I only have about 20 users.  But I'd like 
> one of the users (kindof the school power user) to be able to drag 
> copies to her workstation once a week or so for safety.  I was trying 
> to get a "postexec" command to tar each persons home dir when they log 
> out.  But it's not working and I have no idea how to troubleshoot it.  
> (People are connecting from Macs mainly and I'm wondering if the Mac 
> ejecting the drive even counts as a "log out".)  Any ideas?  How are 
> folks without tape drives or a backuppc server backing up home drives 
> on a smaller network.  I need an ingenious solution.  I'm looking at 
> cron next, but I've never made my own cron script before, I've only 
> typed in commands that I've found in online documentation for various 
> programs, etc.
>
> Thanks a million,
>
> ck
>
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