Re: Backup solutions wanted

Thanks Jim - at the moment I'm just trying to get first command to work.

Even when running it as sudo some directories copy, others wont with 
'permission denied' errors.

( I wish linux would explain WHY permission is denied - at least that 
might point me in the right direction to fix it :)

cheers
c


Jim Tittsler wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 21:01,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> You need to setup SSH key auth, and install rsync on both then run this:
>>
>> rsync -az -e ssh /media/disk-2 user@fileserver:/media/sda1
>>     
>
> You may also want the '--delete' option to remove files from the destination.
>
> I would also recommend investigating rdiff-backup, which in addition
> to maintaining the most recent copy as a file tree that you can copy
> from as normal also maintains history so that you can recover file
> states at previous invocations of the command.  I run it nightly, and
> use the --remove-older-than option to prune it so that I maintain a
> rolling 30 days of history.
>
> Jim
> (Hastings this weekend, but normally Gisborne)
>
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