Re: [PLUG] Automated disk-to-disk backups

[Gordon Dexter <gordon@texasdex.com>]

I've fiddled around with rsnapshot but never really gotten into it, mostly because I can't seem to figure out for sure whether NTFS-3g supports hard links or not.  Nowadays with the state of Windows ext2 drivers, NTFS is (ironically) the better cross-platform OS, but I can't find out whether it's possible to make hard links on it.  Does anybody know?

--Gordon

sean finney wrote:

hiya,

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:25:29PM -0500, Adam Zion wrote:
  

Can anyone recommend the best way to schedule automated disk-to-disk
backups w/linux? I just ordered an external disk drive, and could
certainly manage manually copying everything after su'ing in as each
user, but automated backups would be ideal.
    

if you want just a single backup, rsync'ing as root ought to suffice.

if you want backups going for some window(s) of time, then you might
want to check out something like rdiff-backup or bontmia or similar (there's
about a dozen rsync-with-hardlinks backup wrappers out there)


  sean
  

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