Backup options
Type:
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tgz
This will create a backup as a gziped tar file. It is usefull when
you want to have the possibility to get only several files back.
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dd
This will read out your harddisk in raw format and afterwards gzip.
With this option turned on, you can backup partitions of any file system.
(The filesystem will not be mounted.) But it is only possible to get back
a whole partition.
(To optimise compression during backing up, run some commands like
'cat /dev/zero > /mnt/delme ; rm /mnt/delme' before backing up.)
Zip-day:
Chose on which day the backup(s) should be read out from your harddisk(s)
and zipped. On every other day, the backup files(s) are writen on CD.
If you chose 'any', the backups will be read out from the harddisk(s),
regardless, what day it is. In contrast, if you chose 'no', already
created temporary
backup(s) will be burned on CD, when you start a backup/burn session.
Burn also at zip-days?
You can select here, if at the day, when the backups are read out of your
harddisk and zipped, also a CD with the created files (or already stored
from an earlier session) should be burned on CD.
Since my intern CD-recorder tends to decrease the quality of the
burned CDs, when the machine is already a little hot, because it read out
the harddisk and zipped it for hours, I select not to burn at zip-days.
Other people may have no problems with burning on zip-days.
Zip-level:
Select the compression rate, where 1 is the lowest/fastest and 9 the
highest/slowest rate.
README-file:
If you want to have an own 'README' file on your backup CD, write it's
path and name in this field. Do not include the mountpoint in the path
(eg. /backup/README and not /usr/backup/README) Remember, that the file
must be on the
harddisk partition
where the backup files are temporary stored. You
can change the README-file after saving the backup configuration file,
before creating and burning the backup.
Deeper subdirectory:
If you want to have a deeper subdirectory (as selected on your boot-cd)
as temprorary backup directory fill this filed (only with the additional
path, but with leading slash). (I fill it only at non zip-days with '/client',
when I write the backup(s) of the client on CD, which has its own subdirectory.
-> See Concept of network backup )
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