Incremental backups in Linux

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:40 am

I just got myself a nifty 250gb external firewire drive, and backed up 2 hard drives worth of data for the first time. My only problem is, it's going to be somewhat of a bitch to hunt through all my folders on both internal drives, and copy the stuff over I've downloaded since last backup. Is there a program out there, that will simplify this whole process? I know of solutions for Windows, but I've never heard of a Linux program.

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:32 am

I use a cron job that I downloaded and modified a bit that I got from here to do just this sort of thing.

It runs every night and backs up to a hard drive I got mounted in a USB drive enclosure.

Works great!

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:33 am

rsync.

Karl · Post by **Karl** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:22 pm

I setup my backups following the instuctions from this site:
Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with rsync

It uses rsync and cron. You can also have multiple versions of changed files. So if a file got over written then backed up you can still retrieve an older version of that file.

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:20 pm

Thanks for the suggestions guys.