Backing up 80G hard drive 1G per day
- by barrycarter
I want to securely backup my 80G HD, but doing a complete backup takes
forever and slows down my machine, so I want to backup just 1G per
day. Details:
% First hurdle: on the first day, I want to backup the "first" 1G of
the hard drive. Of course, there really is no "first" 1G on a hard drive.
% After 80 days, I'll have my whole HD backed up... assuming none of
my files ever change, which of course they do. So the backup
plan/program must also catch file creation/changes as they come along.
% The backups must be consistent, in that I can restore my system by
restoring the backups sequentially. In other words, "dd
if=/harddrive" probably won't work.
% The backups should encrypt file contents AND names, but I don't see
this as a major hurdle.
% Once the backup has backed up everything (even changed files), it
can re-backup the first 1G on my hard drive. Even though this backup
is redundant, that's OK, because I always want to be backing up
something (eg, if I'm backing up to optical media, the older media
might start going corrupt).
Is there a magic backup plan/program that does this?
In reality, I want to do this for multiple machines with multiple
drives each, but think that solving the above will solve the general
case.
