BowerStudios.com

  • My Lab
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Professional
  • About
Home

Useful Backup Tools on *nix

daniel —Wed, 06/08/2011 - 4:15pm

  • BSD
  • Linux

Unison, Rsync, and from earlier this week: AutoMyDbBackup

Additional info on Rsync:
Wikipedia Article
Simple Tutorial

  • Log in to post comments

Comments

an example script

Submitted by daniel on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:20pm

rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --recursive --times --links --delete Documents/ example.com:/home/user/docs;

rsync --verbose --progress --stats --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --recursive --times --links --delete example.com:/home/user/pix Pictures/;

rsync --verbose --progress --stats --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --recursive --times --links --delete example.com:/home/user/music Music;

#no need to compress pictures and music, as they are already about as compressed as possible

  • Log in to post comments

Dirvish - A snapshot backup system

Submitted by daniel on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 10:47am

The snapshotting backup system comes highly recommended.

  • Log in to post comments

Navigation

  • Search
  • Recent content
  • Contact Me
  • Mail
  • Pass Hasher
  • Bower Studios Admin

Quotes

daniel —Wed, 08/31/2011 - 12:49am

Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating.

—

Martin Reiser

quoted by Nicklaus Wirth, 1995, which spawned "Grove giveth, and Gates taketh away," author unknown, referring to CEOs of Intel and Microsoft

  • Log in to post comments
  • daniel's quotes

Popular content

Last viewed:

  • Never underestimate the power of pretty.
  • Determine whether your java install has limited key strength due to export restrictions
  • Collectd on Ubuntu (Monitoring)
  • Postgresql - Search all tables for a column name
  • Adding Environment Variables to Tomcat

Copyright 2021 Daniel Bower
  • My Lab
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Professional
  • About