Subject: Re: Simple Backup Script
To: Brian Rose <lists@brianrose.net>
From: Stefan Schumacher <stefan@net-tex.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/03/2005 20:00:05
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On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 09:24:10PM -0500, Brian Rose wrote:
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> I'm looking to backup my Samba share onto an external FAT32 drive. Is the=
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> a relatively simple way to do incremental backups? Basically if a file is=
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> changed or added, I want the script to copy only the changed or added fil=
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> to an identical tree on the external drive.

rsync=20
	(ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/net/rsync/DESCR)

p5-File-DirSync
	(ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/p5-File-DirSync/DES=
CR)
a Perl-module, one can build a simple wrapperscript run as daemon or
by cron to sync trees. It tries to keep its cost low.


might be of interest.

As for me, I use dump/restore to backup data to tapes, but the
programms listed above might be more fitting to keep a mirror of a
dirtree.


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