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readynas 104: system backup ?
Hello all, how can i create a weekly system backup to an external usb drive (as a compressed archive i guess) and keep the last 5 or 10 versions before dumping them? Does anybody know how to do th...
aVe2000 wrote:
I would like to backup only some specil folders e.g. the webdav, webcal folders.
I know how to do stuff via ssh and i am able to write scripts but i do not know anything about backup tools and make automated scripts.
You could use crontab and have some script doing "btrfs send/receive" with snapshots (over a SSH-pipe or what you prefer) to an other box with btrfs and same snapshot catalogs.
Or maybe a "tradinational" tar-backup or a RSync to an other machine (also triggered by crontab) ...
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