[Lincoln LUG] backup

[Philip Newborough]

Hi Andy :)

I think I would opt for using rsync and a @weekly crontab entry. I’d
probably put the rsync commands in a shell script and call that via
cron, as opposed to calling the rsync command directly.

Can you tell us more about your Debian install? Is it headless, or is
it running a desktop environment? If it’s the latter, I’m sure there
are some nice GUI solutions available these days.

Cheers,
Philip

On 12 September 2017 at 23:20:03, Andrew Walmsley via Lincoln
(lincoln at mailman.lug.org.uk) wrote:
> hey everyone
>
> Can i have everyone's recommends for backups with debian, it's a single low
> power machine i store files on (mainly photos). I have a 1tb usb drive i
> want to use in case the main drive dies.
>
> just need something automated i can run once a week and get email alerts if
> any issues.
>
> Ideas....???
>
>
>
> Andy
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