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Re: [LUG] Rsync incremental backup

 

Sorry, just realised I recommended the wrong program. Backuppc is the one that does this, backup-manager - whilst excellent in its own way, is a different beast.

On 6 September 2015 at 17:44, Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not what you asked, but backup Manager is nice and takes the heavy thinking out of it.

Also keeps multiple copies, unlike your method - and pools the files so there's only ever one unique copy of each on the backup drive, no matter how many snapshots you have, which as you can imagine saves a fair bit of disk sapce.

On 6 September 2015 at 17:30, Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,

You may recall a while ago I asked about rsync for backups, and also a bit later about it failing to my USB backup drive. It turns out the drive had bitten the bullet. Anyway the problem I have now, with a new USB drive, is that despite using the same command line as previously every time it insists on backing up ALL my root and home directory files every time not just the ones that have changed. I also backup the Windows partition and Windows' My Documents - which are on the same machine - and it does the same for those. ÂAs you can imagine this is a real pain in the backside as it drastically lengthens backup times.

This is an example, and always worked before the old hard drive died.

rsync -aAXv /* /media/julian/ATHENA/RAFAELA --exclude={/dev/*,/proc/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/run/*,/mnt/*,/media/*,/lost+found,/home/*}

Any ideas gratefully received.

Julian

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