Topic: New to SME Looking to backup server

[nuccx2001]

I am new to Linux in general

Looking to do a couple of things

I have created a file server. I have created my information bays. 

What I want to do now is two things...

1)  I would like to be able to use some sort of SYNC tool to backup the data between the server and an external USB Drive.
2) would also like to back up the data to another shared directory on the network.

Coming from a Windows environment, I am accustom to using command such as ROBOCOPY to accomplish this only copying updated / changed files.

What is available  to me in the open source environment that could do similar.

[Stefano]

hi

welcome aboard

please use the 'Search' link above..
BTW, 'backup with dar' should work for you

ciao
Stefano

[mercyh]

Be careful with USB drives connected to the server. Linux is a bit flaky with mounting and unmounting usb drives, for sure when rotating different drives. Backup to Workstation is a much more reliable option and if you need to move a backup offsite, I would actually copy the workstation backup file to a USB attached to the workstation instead of trying to do a direct backup to USB on the server.

[nuccx2001]

Thank you both.... 

I followed some instructions on installing DAR... but I am noticing that I am getting errors about no more mirrors to try....

excecuting the "yum install smeserver-dar2 --enablerepo=smecontribs --enablerepo=smeupdates-testing"

[David Harper]

Try the newer Workstation Backup update listed at http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_with_dar