Backup!

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:06

I have a NAS doodad, a WD MyBook World Edition. It sits plugged into my router (ethernet) and I fill it with crap (raw photo files, software installation exes and some meeja).

I probably should back it up onto a second hard drive. I have some spares lying around (USB ones) and the MyBook has a USB socket in it which I believe will let it access a USB drive plugged in there.

So, I could just drag/drop in windows or os x, I guess, or run some backup program, but I think these would involve the files flittering over to my pc then back again in some convoluted way because of how file copies work on the desktop.

I do have ssh access to my MyBook (which I set up so I could put ushare on it) so I am thinking some kind of unix script to do some simple copy could do it. Getting more fancy, maybe one of those "cron" things.

It's been over 12 years since I was a unix geek of any kind, so I can't remember all the commands, nor especially the switches, flags, pipes etc to do something like this. So if any unix spods know how to copy the stuff from hd0/usr/share/ (or whatever) to usb0/blah/ or whatever that would be a slice of fried gold I think. :munkeh:

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6587

Well

Code:

cp -r /path/of/stuff/now /path/of/backup/dest

Should do it, if all you want it to copy stuff in one big chunk. Adding "-u" switch will mean that stuff only gets copied over if it's newer than what is in the backup dir, which might be useful if you;re doing it every night.

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Thu Jan 01, 2009 22:41

Ta!

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