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Copy/backup all dirs containing files matching a regexp
I would like to do a backup where I recursively go through a dir structure and only get directories with files whose names matching a particular regexp. I would like to keep the directory structure, ...
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Backup of LVM2 logical volume
I'd like to make backup on external drive of LVM2 logical volume in dd manner.
Approach I consider is to
make lv on extranl drive with identical size
copy with dd
(Please let me know if you see ...
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Automated incremental backups to an external drive
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A client needs an automated backup solution to an external drive (to be taken offsite weekly). I'd typically suggest rsnapshot (or perhaps rolling out a custom rsync script), but this ...
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How can i check that a remote computer is online for ssh / script acess?
i'm writting a script that will backup data from my laptop to an ubuntu server.
to do so, i'm looking for a (ba)sh command to test if the server is available before starting the backup. something like ...
