How to create a backup of everything like in NT?

[johnwillis]

Here's a question for you.

I want to backup up all my ciritical data on my system.

Currently my server at home is running Ubuntu 7.10 (Studio Edition)

The files I need backing up are:

Apache Folder + Conf Files
PHP Configuration
MySQL Databases Version 5
Samba Network Shares located on root drive under /shares/Public

I am running my two drives as a Linux RAID 1 - I'm not too sure if this makes any differences.

What I am really after is a way I can create a nicely compressed file scheduled every other day (or maybe every night depending how compressed it is) and keep up to five, once I get to 5 overwrite the oldest.

It's what I've been doing in Windows for years. But now I want to get my automated backups sorted.

I don't mind editing files, etc. But if there is any app out there that people know of and love then please let me know!

:)

Thanks in advance for all your help

John

[UbuWu]

For general hints:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem

rdiff-backup (http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/) might be helpful

[k_grdn]

Hi John,

The simplest choice would be tar & rysnc.

Try man tar, man rysnc.

Amanda is a good solution for automated/scheduled backups.

Regards,

k_grdn

[johnwillis]

cheers for the suggestions guys. now i know where to look i'll have a mess about! (In VM of course!)

Cheers

J

[invar9]

I back my system up using rsync to a backup server
rsync -avS /directories/to/backup root@backupserver:/backup/directory

IT works really well and extremily quickly. enen doing a off site backup.

Hope ot helps