Uwe Hermann | A slightly paranoid Debian developer

I'm currently looking into "serious" backup solutions (such as Amanda or Bacula) for work and personal backups. While I may switch to one of those soonishly, I'm currently using a pretty simple script to backup my laptop contents to an external, dm-crypt/LUKS encrypted USB hard drive via rsync.

#!/bin/sh
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# File: rsync_backup
# Author: Uwe Hermann 
# URL: http://www.hermann-uwe.de/files/rsync_backup
# License: GNU GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
# $Id: rsync_backup 511 2006-05-15 16:44:08Z uh1763 $
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SOURCE='/svn /etc /var/www /var/log /root /home'
DEST=/mnt/samsung300gb/backup

time rsync -a --progress --stats --delete-during $SOURCE $DEST

Just to let you know ;)