The faulty hard drive i have will be the perfect place to have a daily task at say 3 in the morning to do an rsync of differences.
It would back up:
- Mp3’s
- Complete Mysql database, only keep last n copies
- wordpress directory
- mythtv home directory
Even if this disk did die, it wouldnt particulary matter, it would just be quite useful as a secodary back up. I have marked all badblocks with fsck.ext3 and then mounted the drive.
My simple solution was to create a bash file with the following, chmod +x, and add it to the crontab
Mainly it dumps my whole mysql database and Rsyncs any files i want to backup
DATE=`date +’%m-%d-%Y’`
mysqldump -c –password=xxx -A > /mnt/backup-drive-faulty/mysqlbackups/mythsq
l.dump.$DATE
rsync -av –delete /home/tomas /mnt/backup-drive-faulty/root-backup/
rsync -av –delete /root /mnt/backup-drive-faulty/root-backup/
rsync -av –delete /home/etc /mnt/backup-drive-faulty/root-backup/
rsync -av –delete /usr/share/wordpress /mnt/backup-drive-faulty/root-backup/
rsync -av –delete /home/mythtv /mnt/backup-drive-faulty/root-backup/
rsync -av –delete /mnt/store2/music /mnt/backup-drive-faulty/music
Seems to do the job nicely, not the best solution, but its quick and works.
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