Re: USB/Flash Drive backup strategies
On 9/25/18 6:30 AM, Max Pyziur wrote:
Greetings,
The handful of my Linux machines are backed-up via rsync and cron
(hourly) to a dedicated machine.
I use several USB/Flash drives for dedicated work that requires using
them both on my Linux laptops and on other OSs (Windows and Mac).
I'd like to somehow back these up to the dedicated machine; has anyone
devised a method to do something like this?
Depends on how you're doing things.
1. Mount the external drives on one of your machines that get backed up.
2. Make sure you tell the backup to include the mountpoints where those
volumes are mounted
3. Make sure the backup software is running as root or a user that can
walk down the directories where the drives are mounted and can read
the files.
Then the backup should include those drives. If you want to back up
the drives without mounting them, then you're going to have to do
something bizarre like a "dd" of the raw device, piped through something
like netcat to get to the dedicated backup machine.
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