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The nth Backup Solution

Friday, February 19, 2010

In the past, I had developed my own backup solution.  Unfortunately, over time it didn’t work out (mainly from changing systems, moving, using a laptop instead of a desktop, and maintaining it).  However, I still like the idea of incremental backups as well as a mirrored version of my files (it saves space and lets [...]

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Automatic backups using cron and tar

Saturday, October 6, 2007

This post is an import from a presentation I did in October of 2007. Since I’ve made this presentation, I’ve stopped using my own script and suggest you use another tool for backups. I hear rdiff-backup is good. However, I believe this is still a good introduction to bash scripting, cron, and [...]

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