well known backup scripts? (using rsynch)

[callagga]

Hi,

I'm looking to set up backups on my linux box. I'm looking now at the two scripts below. If you know of any more well known & tested backup scripts than these can you let me know?

* rsnapshot

* HOWTO: Backup nightly via rsync

Thanks

[wbens]

Hello callaga:

Here is one of my scripts I use to backup the etc directory on my servers:

#!/bin/bash
# Set a value that we can use for a datestamp
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`

# Our Base backup for home directories
BOX="serverIP"
BASEBACKUP="/opt/backup-dir/$BOX/full-backups/etc"

# This is where we throw our backups.

# Test to see if our backup directory exists.
# If not, create it.
if [ ! -d $BASEBACKUP ]
then
mkdir -p $BASEBACKUP
fi

tar cvzpf etc-$DATE.tar.gz /etc

mv etc-$DATE.tar.gz $BASEBACKUP


Just change "serverIP" for either your server's IP or its host name.
This script does a full backup of this directory.

The next one is for incremental backups of this directory:

#!/bin/bash

DATE=` /bin/date +%m%d%Y-%H%M`

find /etc -type f -mtime -1 | xargs \
tar cvzpf
/opt/backup-dir/serverIP/incremental-backups-$DATE.tar.gz


The script for incremental backups backs up all the files that have changed in the /etc directory within the past 24 hours.

I hope this helps.