Re: How to backup of large md raid volumes?

[Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>]

On Thu, 18 May 2017 22:39:59 -0500
Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is a summary of what I like to do. I want to backup files on to 
> (multiple) disks that will be loaded on to a USB dock. Simple one to one 
> copy is all I am looking for. I am not interested in full vs. 
> incremental or keeping versions of files for restore. My data is just 
> movies and songs. All I want is a SW that understands links (to avoid 
> duplicates) and copy files in batch on to multiple disks. I want content 
> of each (backup) disk to be independent. This way if one backup disk 
> dies, I have all other files unaffected by this failure. The only reason 
> I did not try multi-volume tar is the lack of independence across disks.

What I'm doing is storing files on my primary storage in folders according to
where they are backed up to.

E.g. "[back up of this is to be stored] On USB disk A", "B", etc.

In your case that would be:

/storage/OnDiskA/Movies/......
/storage/OnDiskA/Music/......

/storage/OnDiskB/Movies/......


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With respect,
Roman