[LBo] Moving Home

[Michael Cole]

I don't know how she does it but i use an rsync script to run at a certain 
time of the day, using cron. I have a nice 80GB external drive which gives me 
the space needed, I also have full Rsync of the latest Mandriva files. If i 
dont carry my laptop i take my drive with me. I can install a full system and 
apply all patches without Internet access. 

Once I a while have to run a genhdlist .. --MD5SUM as the sync was interrupted 
and the hdlist file is incorrect. Also i dont have every single file things 
like Languages are trimmed down using an exclude file.

This below does my Kde settings and email, and only deletes 100 Files per day, 
So if i really stuff up only 100 are missing, I copy that to a CD once a 
month.
rsync -avi --delete-after --max-delete=100 /home/michael/.kde/ /mnt/External/Personal/KDESettings/

This one below copies my Personal Files to a FAT32 Drive (The permissions are 
not kept intact.) Things like my Families photos and other files.
rsync -crtvi --delete-after --max-delete=100  /home/michael/Documents/Personal/  /mnt/ExternalFAT32/PersonalBackup/Personal

There are probably better ways but this is simple and works for me.

If you mount the other computer each morning you can run this  just the same.
I also a line just before this to double check the mount has been performed.




On Tuesday 13 March 2007 05:41:46 Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
> Anita, how do you do that backup? That is something I would like to set
> up on my system. I burn a DVD from time to time with my documents, mail,
> and stuff like that, but I would also like to do automatic copies on a
> daily basis that would go to another computer.



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Regards
Michael Cole