Re: Looking for a Backup Program

I like Amanda.

There are a number of scripts you can run yourself, but I find very
effective because it is a wrapper for standard dumps.

Any questions drop me a note.

Cian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Ruskin" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-newbies] Looking for a Backup Program


> On Friday 13 Sep 2002 02:42, Kent Jantz wrote:
> > I'm looking for a backup program that will do repeatable schedlued
> > backups, doesn't have to be to fancy.  I looked at Rdiff but I don't
> > know if it's repeatable.
> >
> > Kent
> >
> tar?
>
> for example /etc/cron.daily/backup-peter1:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> echo "Job started at $(date)."
> echo
> # Backup jobs for cron.daily...
> downloadfrom="/home/peter/"
> downloadto="/bak/daily/"
> stub="gentoo1.4-peter-"
> dirs=".kde3 OpenOffice.org1.0 Mail win"
> for dir in $dirs; do
> echo "Deleting stale $(date +%A) backups of $dir ..."
> echo
> rm -f $downloadto$(date +%a)-$stub$dir-2*
> done
> cd $downloadfrom
> for dir in $dirs; do
> echo
> echo "Backing up $downloadfrom$dir to $downloadto ..."
> echo "Job started at $(date)."
> echo "            Please be patient."
> tar zcvf $downloadto$(date +%a)-$stub$dir-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M).tar.gz
> $dir
> done
> echo
> echo "All finished at $(date)."
>
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