Greetings All!


I was wondering if anyone can recommend a backup program, I would like to run (auto if possible) routine that can back up certain directories and ftp it to my NAS, I have a routine for the ftp part if the backup program cant do that piece..

Regards,



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Hi Rick!

08 Jun 2020 20:54, from Rick Smith -> All:

I was wondering if anyone can recommend a backup program, I would like
to run (auto if possible) routine that can back up certain directories
and ftp it to my NAS, I have a routine for the ftp part if the backup program cant do that piece..

Take a look on something rsync based.

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On 06-08-20 20:54, Rick Smith wrote to All <=-

Greetings All!

I was wondering if anyone can recommend a backup program, I would like
to run (auto if possible) routine that can back up certain directories
and ftp it to my NAS, I have a routine for the ftp part if the backup program cant do that piece..

Regards,

tar? :)

That or zip are what I use on my Linux systems. :)


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Re: Backup
By: Rick Smith to All on Mon Jun 08 2020 20:54:00

I was wondering if anyone can recommend a backup program,

rsync


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Hello Rick!

Monday June 08 2020 20:54, you wrote to All:

Greetings All!

I was wondering if anyone can recommend a backup program, I would like
to run (auto if possible) routine that can back up certain directories
and ftp it to my NAS, I have a routine for the ftp part if the backup program cant do that piece..

I use rsync as two streams for / partition as root and /home for all user areas.

See below scripts :

Home :

#!/bin/bash
time rsync -avvuhh --stats --delete --exclude=/home/vince/Music2 /home /home/vince/Music2/Backups > rsync-home.log 2>rsync-home.err
exit 0


Boot:

#!/bin/bash
time rsync -avvuhh --stats --delete --exclude=/dev --exclude=/proc --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/run --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/home --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys / /home/vince/Music2/Backups/SSD-Mageia-v7-HDD > rsync-root.log 2>rsync-root.err
exit 0


Mind you trying to make an image of the boot (/) back up to another drive (a SSD) mounted as /mnt/disk1 does not work as it create a directory 2 with 2 blocks of restored data as / and disk1 both in the directory I am running it from.

Mounted devices :

$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc3 88G 18G 66G 22% /mnt/disk1
/dev/sda9 992G 607G 335G 65% /home
/dev/sdb1 2.7T 873G 1.9T 32% /home/vince/Music2

I have ommitted some systems.


Vincent

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Greetings Tony!

09 Jun 20 20:29, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:

On 06-08-20 20:54, Rick Smith wrote to All <=-

That or zip are what I use on my Linux systems. :)

Im sorry I was referring to backup software not archivers



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Rick Smith wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Greetings Tony!

09 Jun 20 20:29, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:

On 06-08-20 20:54, Rick Smith wrote to All <=-

That or zip are what I use on my Linux systems. :)

Im sorry I was referring to backup software not archivers

Ahh, I was going to recommend Denis Corbin's DAR.

What are your other requirements? I was looking for a backup program too, but I found they generally fell into three groups. The first were more complex systems like Bacula which were really for the "enterprise". The second were just front ends to CLI tools, which I kind of think you may as well use the tool directly, and the third were command line tools like BORG.

Do you have many directories to backup? What sort of backup schedule? Do you need differential/incremental backups?

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On 06-09-20 07:14, Rick Smith wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Greetings Tony!

09 Jun 20 20:29, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:

On 06-08-20 20:54, Rick Smith wrote to All <=-

That or zip are what I use on my Linux systems. :)

Im sorry I was referring to backup software not archivers

Well, I do my backups with tar/gzip or zip (the latter if there's something that might be restorable on Windows). This is easily scripted, including naming backups with a datestamp (at least in Linux).

So, you really need to be more specific with your question. :)


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Re: Re: Backup
By: Tony Langdon to Rick Smith on Wed Jun 10 2020 19:20:00

Im sorry I was referring to backup software not archivers

Well, I do my backups with tar/gzip or zip (the latter if
there's something that might be restorable on Windows).
This is easily scripted, including naming backups with a
datestamp (at least in Linux).

powershell should be able to return a timestamp for use in naming files, too...

what you describe for linux is a method i use, too... once i create the archive, i scp it to another machine or three... at least one is offsite...

interestingly enough, archiving and then backing up to a media is how many winwhatever backup solutions work... or they do an rsync-type backup where they
move only the new and/or changed files... the question is how
automated do you want it and how much work are you willing to do to achieve this operation ;)


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Hello Rick!

08 Jun 2020 20:54, Rick Smith wrote to All:

I was wondering if anyone can recommend a backup program, I would like
to run (auto if possible) routine that can back up certain directories and ftp it to my NAS, I have a routine for the ftp part if the backup program cant do that piece..

backup ?, if your linux server is ftp, then sync that with the nas, if there is
apps to mirror ftp ?

i just say rsyncd on linux server, and then rsync client on nas, no problem, remember to make the rsyncd running read only, so its not sync both ways and get loosing files, hoppefully you dont want that

i can help with the rsyncd if needed


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On 06-10-20 09:32, mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

powershell should be able to return a timestamp for use in naming
files, too...

I haven't done much with Powershell, but I wouldn't be surprised if it can name files by date.

what you describe for linux is a method i use, too... once i create the archive, i scp it to another machine or three... at least one is offsite...

Yep, I try and have it as hands off as possible. :)

interestingly enough, archiving and then backing up to a media is how
many winwhatever backup solutions work... or they do an rsync-type
backup where they move only the new and/or changed files... the
question is how automated do you want it and how much work are you
willing to do to achieve this operation ;)

Yep. I've found standard Linus tools like tar, gzip and rsync are easier for me, because they're portable.



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