Step 1:Deciding source and destination directories
Decide which folder or directory that should be backed up . This directory will become the source directory. The directory in which the source files or folders must be kept.This directory is the destination directory.
Step 2: Mounting the Disk or external drive
If the backup is the total system backup which can be in large size or very important , it should be stored in external devices or other partitions or hard disks, it should be mounted.
In this description I used another partion named /dev/sdc6 for storing backup
I mounted this on /media/diskc1 using command
root@ubuntu:~# mkdir /media/disk1
root@ubuntu:~# mount /dev/sdb2 /media/disk1
Step3 : Creating Backup directory or folder
For storing the backup I created a directory called Backup_01012013.By using the following command
root@ubuntu:~# mkdir /media/disk1/Backup_01012013
root@ubuntu:~# ls -l /media/disk1
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2013-11-23 10:50 Backup_01012013
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2013-11-12 08:23 lost+found
Step4 : Creating backup using "rsync" command
Here Iam backing up a folder named "impfolder" in the users root directory by uising "remote synchronize " command
root@ubuntu:~# rsync -zvr impfolder /media/disk1/Backup_01012013
sending incremental file list
impfolder/
impfolder/f1
impfolder/f2
impfolder/f3
impfolder/f4
sent 356 bytes received 92 bytes 896.00 bytes/sec
total size is 285 speedup is 0.64
Step6: Checking the backup in the destination directory
By using "ls" command from the directory /media/disk1/Backup_01012013/
root@ubuntu:~# ls -l /media/disk1/Backup_01012013/impfolder
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 2013-11-24 04:38 f1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155 2013-11-24 04:38 f2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22 2013-11-24 04:38 f3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2013-11-24 04:38 f4
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