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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Best practises for backing up Post 77290 by d11wtq on Wednesday 6th of July 2005 08:11:14 PM
Old 07-06-2005
Thanks for pointing me the right way. I decided I'm going to end up with too many disks to put anywhere if I do a FULL backup weekly so what I'm doing instead is to backup the regularly changed stuff (/home and /MP3) weekly and the FULL backup once monthly.

I'm going to play with that BASH script on the link you posted and enhance it to suit my needs / automate a few more things as well as log the details of the backups somewhere.

Thanks again,

d11
 

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OPTIONS

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