[ale] backup setup

[Preston Boyington]

Hello Geoffrey,

Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 8:25:38 AM, you wrote:

G> Pretty simple really.  I do something similar.  I have one box that I 
G> use for only cd burning.  I mount a share from my primary machine which 
G> is mounted to all other machines.  Anything I want backed up is dropped 
G> into /share/archive.

G> There's a cron job that runs on the cdburner machine that does the tar 
G> and then burns the cd.

G> As for adding the date to the end of the file name, see 'man date' it's 
G> pretty straight forward.

G> Preston Boyington wrote:
>> i would like to setup one of my older machines with a cd burner in
>> order to have it do an automatic backup.  i want it to do a daily
>> mirror of the "My Documents" folder and at the end of the week (or
>> month or whenever) have it burn the contents to cd.  that way my wife
>> will only have to walk by and replace the cd.  additionally if the
>> script could tar.gz the directory with the week ending date that would
>> be wonderful.
>> 
>> anyone know if there is a program that can do this or if it is
>> possible to write a script for this?  it will run on a debian machine
>> that i am setting up to do a weekly check for updates.
>> 
>> also i cannot stress enough how this would need to be a "set it and
>> forget it" type of project.
>> 

Thanks.  I am still getting my footing on the network management side
of this.  Have used linux as a desktop for a while, just didn't need
to get "in depth" with anything until this point.

Any help would be appreciated.

-- 
Best regards,
 Preston

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