Backup Program

[james147]

What about System Mount Folders? On hover it says this will exclude /mnt and /media. If I were to *not* exclude /mnt and /media with this setting, does that mean that it would also try back up all the HDDs listed in my sig? While I would hate to loose the data on those HDDs, I can accept the loss. Technically I could loose my SSD as well, but I would much rather have a SSD(OS) back upto be able to get a functional system back online almost instantly.

Nothing is mounted to /mnt automatically, so unless you have mounted something there I would not worry about it.

As for /media, personally I would not backup this as it's contents can change depending on what drives you have plunged in. It is where udev mounts removable media (and media that doesn't have a mount point specified in /etc/fstab) which you might not want backup. Personally I would backup every thing in /media separately and only if needed given that you aren't limited to doing just one backup .

As for your other drives, it depends on where they are mounted, if they are mounted somewhere other then /media (well, and all the other excluded folders) then they should be backup (unless you select the one filesystem only option).

Personally I would backup all the different drives separately (by enabling the one filesystem only option) as this makes it easier to restore the contents back to those drives later as you can mount and rsync back the different drives individually (or just the one that failed).

thanks guys, i will try lucky backup

[Xplorer4x4]

You should be able to use "/" as the source to backup the root and everything under it, although it is best to select the "ignore system folders" option when doing that or you will also backup unneeded files/folders (such as /dev or /sys or /proc which are all special file systems mounted in memory and /tmp which isn't needed in a backup).

About the only thing that wont backup is the mbr which can be easily installed again from a livecd if needed.

/me smacks self in head, I should have tried manually typing / for source. I was using the tree view gui and it has not option to select /

As for exclusions, thanks for the tip. Do you,or any one else, recommend any other exclusions? I figure Temporary Folders, Trash, and Cache folders are good things to exclude. What about System Mount Folders? On hover it says this will exclude /mnt and /media. If I were to *not* exclude /mnt and /media with this setting, does that mean that it would also try back up all the HDDs listed in my sig? While I would hate to loose the data on those HDDs, I can accept the loss. Technically I could loose my SSD as well, but I would much rather have a SSD(OS) back upto be able to get a functional system back online almost instantly.

[james147]

I am trying Lucky Backup as we speak. It seems to be a nice simple gui at it's core but has the more advanced features for those who want them. However, I can;t seem to figure out how to make it back up my entire OS drive. I could set it to back up my home folder alone, but that seems insufficient in case of a SSD/HDD crash.

You should be able to use "/" as the source to backup the root and everything under it, although it is best to select the "ignore system folders" option when doing that or you will also backup unneeded files/folders (such as /dev or /sys or /proc which are all special file systems mounted in memory and /tmp which isn't needed in a backup).

About the only thing that wont backup is the mbr which can be easily installed again from a livecd if needed.

[The Liquidator]

You could try backintime which works pretty well for me.

[Xplorer4x4]

Another you might want to look at is Lucky Backup.

I am trying Lucky Backup as we speak. It seems to be a nice simple gui at it's core but has the more advanced features for those who want them. However, I can;t seem to figure out how to make it back up my entire OS drive. I could set it to back up my home folder alone, but that seems insufficient in case of a SSD/HDD crash.

[HalationEffect]

Only if you promise to clean up after you're done!

LOL! I feel dirty now...

[SteveRiley]

opportunity to use "flibbertigibbet"

Only if you promise to clean up after you're done!

[Snowhog]

Well, then, let's not forget:
Dingus
Thingamabob
Dooverlackie
Thingamajig
Whatsit

[HalationEffect]

One should never pass up the chance to use the word "cahoots" in a sentence, or "shenanigans"

In a similar vein, I'm always on the lookout for any opportunity to use "flibbertigibbet"

[capt-zero]

Here in Texas it's mandatory, except before 12 on Sundays. However wearing cahoots is not allowed within 200 feet of a church or school.

[Snowhog]

In rural Pennsylvania, engaging in shenanigans is a sin.

[SteveRiley]

Two people in cahoots often will begat something while engaging in shenanigans

[oshunluvr]

Disk space is filling up ever faster..

Hmm, which came first, the chicken or the egg?

One could argue that the reduction in cost-per-megabyte begat new devices/software with ever larger space requirements.

Or, if one were a conspiracy theorist one could propose that the companies were in cahoots!

More likely, both trends are a simple extension of Moore's Law.

In my case, after acquiring 4TB of additional space for my server. I re-ripped my 400ish CD collection into flac rather than mp3. So here; the available space begat the file sizes.

p.s. One should never pass up the chance to use the word "cahoots" in a sentence, or "shenanigans"

[Teunis]

Disk space is getting cheaper all the time.

Disk space is filling up ever faster
Like my camera delivering photo's in the 40-60 MB range per picture and movies come in at close to 3 MB per second...