The simplest solution is rsync. The possibilities are endless, of course. you have to know how to utilize it for your needs, though. Most importantly, because you have removable drives, I find it useful to keep the script for the backup on the drive itself. This will let you use relative paths for the target directory. Why? If you're running a distro that may be prone to changing the way it handles auto-mounting, your script won't break. If you run this command from the drive: rsync -azP --log-file=backup.log --exclude-from=./exclude.lst --max-size=100M ~/* ./back-`date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S"` you'll get a directory in the current directory called back- + the date with everything in your home directory that's NOT in the exclude.lst file and that's smaller than 100MB. The backup will be stored in a directory called back- + the date. it only gets better from there http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Andy Schmid <andyschmid at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm looking for some advice on backing up data on a Linux workstation. I currently have a 1.5TB hard drive, and multiple smaller drives (80GB-500GB in size). I would like to use these smaller hard drives as backup media for the 1.5TB drive. I also can only connect one of the smaller drives at a time, so some sort of media catalog will probably be needed. > > I have looked around a bit, but most software suites seem way too large and complex for what I need (e.x. Amanda). Does anyone know of a simpler solution to use for routine backups? > > Thanks, > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >