Re: The backup

[Brad B]

As a simple home user... I use Grsync from the desktop to backup my home
directory to an external drive, and once per month, I use rsync to copy
backup drive to a second drive.

I really like Grsync from the desktop... two clicks to activate my standard
home directory backup, but I don't understand how to use it from the GUI
desktop to backup say, the entire home directory without tinkering with
everybody's permissions.

For an all-users data backup, I usually just drop into a terminal, log in as
root and use rsync.
I like backing up my data in simple standard file structures that don't
require any special software to read through... my main backup drive is
formatted NTFS.  Occasionally I boot the machine into Windows, and it is
nice to be able to access all of the Linux files backed up there easily from
Windows... and vice-versa.



On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora(a)nicubunu.ro&gt;wrote:

>  On 03/03/2010 06:50 PM, Hristo Petkov wrote:
>  > Hi Guys,
>  >
>  > What are you going to backup.
>
>  In an ideal world you would backup *everything*.
>
>  > The OS is 'backed-up' on the live CD, the applications are
> 'backed-up'
>
>  That's the base OS, without any applications and without updates. Going
>  up-to-date will take a lot longer than restoring a backup.
>
>  > all over the web, the repository lists can be found in Google, and the
>
>  Hunting for apps and installing them online means you can't use your
>  computer for your needs.
>
>  > user files can simply be copied onto a flash memory - 64 GB for example.
>
>  Are you joking? When did you copy last time your /home on a flash
>  memory? How long did it take?
>
>  > What is more with every new installation of the OS you are becomming
>  > better and better - this is a unique chance to improve your skills and
>  > to update or upgrade the OS.
>
>  I take you never lost you /home so far...
>
>  > What are you going to backup.
>
>  Usually every user has to decide for a backup strategy examining various
>  trade-offs: size, space, time, importance of data.
>  For a simple user (the target of the Desktop spin) I expect to be about
>  documents, data and settings.
>
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