hi ya tac
> Question: Is there a better way to do what I'm doing? And is there already a
> piece of software that exists on the NET that does what I'm doing better and
> I should trying to re-invent the wheel? :-)
to do backup.. it implies you want the "backup" to be intact if something
goes wrong with the main disk of the systems you're supposed to be
backing up
if you did "rm -rf /", than you probably don't want rsync to
erase your backup
murphy's law will dictate you will do that rm -rf a minute or
two before your rsync start and you just stepped off to get
coffee ( aka pee break )
- rsync is NOT good for backup unless you know why you're using
rsync, which is typically, to keep the 2nd PC as a hot replacement
for the primary or load balanacing where all machines are to
be identical, including identically corrupted ..
- if you turn off --delete than you're gonna have a hard time
figuring out what files to delete on what day ...
- if you did NOT save the previous copy... you lost that original
data forever ...
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backups of windows imply you will need samba.. and that implies
your scripts or other people's scripts can probably handle silly
things that windoze folks does with file names
C:\My Documents\Joe's birthday party.mpg
C:\My Docudments\special "party"
gazillion email boxes with virus (still?) attached
using simple tricks may or may not work on "joe's files"
mount windoze /mnt/win2K
find /mnt/win2k -mtime -8 | tar zcvf /mnt/BACKUP/monday.tgz -T -
umount /mnt/win2k
but that's when things gets to be fun
and add the addition fun when you try to restore windoze files
on NTFS based systems
-- to do proper backups ... of windoze too ..
- you will need to know what you're doing and what you want
and what the scripts does in detail ....
- especially when you have zero control of file Name's used
by the ceo of the company that expects you to backup his
"special filenamed file" for the companie's use
- backups is worthless if you cannot restore to a particular
date and time which is when the problem started to occur
- backups is worthless if you overwrite ysterday/last-weeks good
backups with todays corrupt files
- hundreds of fun stuff ...
- fun stuff to see what people do to screw up backups, restores ...
or that they expect to find a 2 line file they erased that has
their passwd in it, to find that file in 10TeraByte of user data
and they dont know what the filename was
c ya
alvin
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