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Old 12-05-2011
Backup home directory
Hi Team,

I want to write a script which will take a backup of my home directory. But will only backup the changes made in files not whole home directory. I want to upload that on server. I don't have any idea. please help me.
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Old 12-05-2011
rsync?

Here's an extract from the man page on RHEL, which describes just what you want:

Code:
EXAMPLES
       Here are some examples of how I use rsync.

       To backup my wife's home directory, which consists of large MS Word files and mail folders, I use a cron job that runs

              rsync -Cavz . arvidsjaur:backup

# 3  
Old 12-05-2011
rdiff-backup
Hi, I'm using rdiff-backup with a crontab like this:
Code:
0 0 * * 2-6 /home/myuser/bin/home-rdiff-backup

this script is:
Code:
#!/bin/csh
/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude /home/myuser/.cache --exclude /home/myuser/.thumbnails /home/myuser /export/home/RDIFF_BACKUP/Backup_mymachine_rdiff
/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 2M --force /export/home/RDIFF_BACKUP/Backup_mymachine_rdiff
exit

------------------------------------------------------------
/export/home/RDIFF_BACKUP is a NFS. I remove all the backups older than 2 months.

Rdiff-backup use the rsync libraries and can do incremental backups, basically the same as rsync but with a "better" restore system. In order to have a graphical interface you can use JBackpack, it is a Java and it works in any system.
Last edited by Scott; 12-05-2011 at 07:18 AM.. Reason: Added code tags
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# 4  
Old 12-05-2011
Never heard of it, but it seems perfect. Thanks Smilie

Code:
rdiff-backup.x86_64 : Convenient and transparent local/remote incremental mirror/backup

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