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

[Marty Skitch <skitch@skitchfamily.net>]

Adam,
    At home I use cron and rsync to backup my hard drive to an external 
USB drive. 
    Here is the rsync command

        rsync -avr --delete /mnt/Share /mnt/usbDrive/Share_Backup

    This copies my Share to my backup

    The sudo crontab -e command opens an editor and here is the line in 
my crontab file

        30 4 * * * rsync -avr --delete /mnt/Share /mnt/usbDrive/Share_Backup

    This runs by backup every morning at 4:30

    Hope this helps

Marty Skitch





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.
>
> Thx,
> -Z
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