backup hole system to external usb drive [Solved]

Roman_Gruber · Last edited by Roman_Gruber on Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:03 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

I have an idea.
I want to backup my home directory and my data to an external usb drive.
So, is rsync the right tool or are there any other recommendations?

or is dd enough for dumping the hole disk? with additional dumping the mbr

Thank you for reading. Any ideas are welcome.

I don*t like big scripts. I know there are backup scripts on this forums.

ccp · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 62

I use dirvish, it is a rsync based backup solution, support increment backup. I have use it to backup my home directory and data together around 100G it usually take about 3 to 8 hours to backup.

my backup using a nslu2 to host two USB disks, the nslu2 export the two USB through NFS, my desktop and server then mount them and execute dirvish as local target.

toralf · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:24 pm Post subject:

I use rsync to backup my full system (except some dirs which patterns I added to an exlude list file) to an encrypted external 2,5" USB drive partition. Works like a charm using these rsync options :

SlashBeast · Retired Dev Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2922

/me using rdiff-backup for it.

Check this http://debaday.debian.net/2008/10/26/rdiff-backup-easy-incremental-backups-from-the-command-line/

Roman_Gruber · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject:

SlashBeast · Retired Dev Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2922

http://www.sysresccd.org/Detailed-packages-list -- System rescue cd (based on gentoo) have rdiff-backup.

You can backup/restore all files from filesystem. Check man rdiff-backup.