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

[Chris Cox]

Eric Waguespack wrote:
> 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
> ..

GNU tar will do this... take a look at the man page.

You can call a script when you reach end of medium and do
whatever you want.

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> 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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