Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 11:15:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: backup system rsync <-> dump Message-ID: <20060502111249.O76323@bravo.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <20060502111316.GA1267@arwen.nagual.st> References: <20060502111316.GA1267@arwen.nagual.st>
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> I have two disks; one is the fbsd system drive, the other is for backup > purposes. > > I'm in doubt about what to use: dump or rsync > > I guess I can do something like: > mount /dev/ad1s3a /backup/root > mount /dev/ad1s3d /backup/var > mount /dev/ad1s3f /backup/usr > /usr/local/bin/rsync -avHxS --delete /usr /backup/usr > for /usr / and var If you do go with rsync, watch the "-delete". If for some reason you blow away /usr/local/etc and then run your backup you'll blow away your backed up /usr/local/etc as well. Probably not what you want :) With the right settings of --backup --backup-dir you can easily create a week (or two or three or whatever) archive of the "daily" changed files. So, for example.. /backup/usr - contains identical copy /backup/dailys/usr/Mon - contains files that changed on /usr on Monday. Then just set things up to rotate/expire the old copies and you have an easy way to get files back you deleted that you didn't mean to. I can post the whole script if you're interested... -philip
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