[NTLUG:Discuss] backing up in linux....

[Eric Waguespack]

thanks for all of the advise... but nothing suggested is really what I
was looking for.

maybe I'll submit an enhancement request:

man cp
..
--pause-and-ask-user-for-another-destination-if-target-device-is-full
..




On 9/14/06, David Stanaway <david at stanaway.net> wrote:
> If you use a filesystem which has a dump utility which supports
> incremental dumps, use that.
>
> xfs is good in this regard. Its dump utility supports full and
> differential dumps.
>
> So every week, do a full dump, then every 3 hours or whatever, do a
> level 5 differential (You can pick any number between 1 and I think 7 or
> 9, google will tell you more about differential backups).
>
>
> rsync is good too and portable. You can with some trickery have rsync
> copy just the differences between two trees to a third location.
>
> Eric Waguespack wrote:
> > I would like to backup a harddrive containing lets say 1.5GB of data,
> > and I would like to copy (backup) this data to usb thumbdrives.
> >
> > My question is how... since the only "archive" bit I am aware of in
> > linux is only significant with the dump command.
> >
> >
> > basically I need to be able to do the following:
> >
> > cp -r /home/me/dir /media/usbthumbdrive
> > ...
> > ...
> > ...
> > <disk full, replace and press a key to continue>
> > etc...
> >
> > the preferred solution would be a command line one, but anything is welcome.
> >
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