[Lvlug] Debian Backups

[Chris]

Darryl Gibson wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>> Read up on crontab. It will allow you to run automatic backups. 
>> Depending on how you want to back just change the "command options 
>> etc" to suit your needs. If you have a server somewhere you could 
>> schedule it to tar & upload your /home directory every 
>> night/week/month. Once you decide what you backing up to somebody can 
>> give you advice on how to do the actual backup.
>
> Don't you back up more than your then /home? What I looking to do is 
> backup everything I will loose since my initial install.
>
> My restore plan is to restore the system with the Ubuntu disk, and 
> then restore my programs and files. So I've been backing up /home, 
> /etc, /usr and /var.
>
>>
>> Crontab tutorial: http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm
>>
>> Basically you edit /etc/crontab and add a line that looks like this:
>>
>> 30 0  1   1,6,12   *    command options etc
>>
>> Below is an example, and how to interpret the numbers::
>>
>> min > hour > day/month > day/week
>> 30     0     1     1,6,12     *     -- 00:30 Hrs  on 1st of Jan, June 
>> & Dec.
>
> At the moment, I'm not concerned with automating the backups, but 
> eventually I will want to.
>
> What I am currently doings is backing up through the Nautilus file 
> manager. With a couple of mouse clicks I can archive a directory, and 
> drop it onto a USB disk. So manual backups are fairly painless. I'm 
> just not sure if I have all the bases covered?
>
I rarely backup anything at all. Why bother? GNU/Linux actually works.