[Sheflug] Re: Backup advice

[Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex

The advice you gave me about using a DVD recorder in place of a CD 
recorder worked out well.  I changed the script to this to make it 
work.......


 rsync -a /home/mydocuments/ /home/mybackup/ > /dev/null 2>&1
 mkdir -p /tmp/backup
 export FILE=backup-`date +%Y%m%d`.tgz
 tar -cz /home/mybackup > /tmp/backup/$FILE
 mkisofs -r -J -o /tmp/backup.iso /tmp/backup
 dvdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,1,0 -data /tmp/backup.iso
 rm -rf /tmp/backup /tmp/backup.iso


Ran it as 'backup' and it dropped several hundreds of MBs of data onto 
a DVD disk in seconds.  I'm now trying to work out how to use it with 
several directories.  Such as  ....  /home/user1/   /home/user2/  
/home/user3.   How do I add this in to the above script to make a 
tape archive of data from several different directories.

Thanks
 

-- 
Richard
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