On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: "Eric - A" > > What is a simple program to do full and incremental backups of my > > hard drive? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. > > I wouldn't back up the whole disk, just because Linux and most of the apps > on > it are relatively easy and quick to reinstall. I plug a USB2 drive in, > mount > it on /mnt/backup/ , then use "rsync -a --delete-after /home/mhgraham/ > /mnt/backup/" every few days.[0] I rotate those disks so I've always got > one > at home and another offsite in a reasonably secure place. My ~ contains > all > the data that'd be annoying, difficult, or impossible to replace. I can > recreate the config files in /etc without much pain. Initial sync on each > disk took over an hour. Incremental syncs take 3-4 minutes. > > Note that YMMV, and you should change your backup plan if you've got more > complicated stuff going on, or commercial apps that require license keys, > or > junk like that. But if you can install a distro, the bootloader and > executables are much much easier to recover in case of disk failure than > your > collection of financial data, your Great American Novel first draft, or all > your custom Perl scripts. > > I've had reasonable luck using partimage to back up and restore a partition > containing 'DozeXP. I had to manually gunzip the image files it created > before the restore would work, though, and I hope they've fixed that > problem > in the latest release. > > [0] It's a little bit more complex than that, but it's all in 2 bash > scripts > that both fit on one screen, and that rsync is the main thing that can't be > eliminated. > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > $ du -hs ~ 118G /home/james thumb drive you say :)