SImply backing up Greyhole / Samba Files to external HDD

[DaNick]

Hi!

I searched around, but maybe this is just too simple

I am looking for an easy, convenient solution that can do an incremental backup all files in my Samba/Greyhole shares to an external harddisk (like the WHS v1 server backup).

Ideally, no encryption, no fuzz, so that I could attach it to any PC in case something went wrong.

Backup can be started on demand (or when the external HDD is turned on/ detected, if that is easy enough).

THX!

Nico

[bigfoot65]

There is nothing currently in Amahi that is automated to do that task. You may need to find a 3rd party app.

You might look here for some help.

https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Backups

[KazarSoze]

DaNick,
Did you find anything that worked well? I am also a Linux newb switching over from WHS after many years. I had all my shares backing up to an external HD (I don't have that much data). I would really like to have the same thing under Amahi. I installed Crashplan and it backs it up but its compressed, encrypted and you can't recover it without going thru Crashplan. I would like to have it backup the shares just as flat files/dirs that way I can move them over to another machine or server should I need to recover or rebuild. Plus I wouldn't have to wipe my current backup HD to a new format or file structure.

I would like to do a differential backup once a week or so and be able to run it on a schedule.

I'm curious as to what you used.

Kazarsoze

[bigfoot65]

What I do for this scenario is use a backup program on my client. It is set to back up certain HDA shares to an external hard drive. The program I use is for Windows, called Create Synchronicity.

http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/

You could also set a cron job on the HDA to back up to an external hard drive as well. This drive would have to be connected to the HDA to keep it simple.

[DaNick]

Hi,

Sorry for responding late.

I managed to get it working with rsync, which I need to start manually, but it seems to work
The script mounts my eSata drive and copies files to the drive

I may still need to tweak the switches for rsync... but this was a solid start for me

BR Nico

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#!/bin/bash mount UUID=c2b3323b-bd21-4a66-b541-xxxxxxxx /mnt/esata rsync -r -v -u -c --copy-links --delete --progress /var/hda/files/drives/drive1/Public /mnt/esata rsync -r -v -u -c --copy-links --delete --progress /var/hda/files/drives/drive1/Pictures /mnt/esata rsync -r -v -u -c --copy-links --delete --progress /var/hda/files/drives/drive1/Music /mnt/esata rsync -r -v -u -c --copy-links --delete --progress /var/hda/files/drives/drive1/Movies /mnt/esata rsync -r -v -u -c --copy-links --delete --progress /var/hda/files/drives/drive1/Movies /mnt/esata rsync -r -v -u -c --copy-links --delete --progress /var/hda/files/drives/drive5 /mnt/esata/TimeMachine

[bigfoot65]

Cool. You can set up a cron job and have it run those whenever you choose automatically.

[DaNick]

Hi

Cron may work, but I have to power on my external drive anyhow, so this is manual.

What could work is a cron job that starts when the drive is detected. However, the effort in setting that up would - for me - be higher than the gain.

BR Nico

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[bigfoot65]

I would think if you had a cron job set to run daily, it would do it when the drive is detected. Otherwise if it's not, it would just skip it or fail. In the case of a failure, it would just exit.