[ale] backup setup

[Geoffrey]

Pretty simple really.  I do something similar.  I have one box that I 
use for only cd burning.  I mount a share from my primary machine which 
is mounted to all other machines.  Anything I want backed up is dropped 
into /share/archive.

There's a cron job that runs on the cdburner machine that does the tar 
and then burns the cd.

As for adding the date to the end of the file name, see 'man date' it's 
pretty straight forward.

Preston Boyington wrote:
> i would like to setup one of my older machines with a cd burner in
> order to have it do an automatic backup.  i want it to do a daily
> mirror of the "My Documents" folder and at the end of the week (or
> month or whenever) have it burn the contents to cd.  that way my wife
> will only have to walk by and replace the cd.  additionally if the
> script could tar.gz the directory with the week ending date that would
> be wonderful.
> 
> anyone know if there is a program that can do this or if it is
> possible to write a script for this?  it will run on a debian machine
> that i am setting up to do a weekly check for updates.
> 
> also i cannot stress enough how this would need to be a "set it and
> forget it" type of project.
> 

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