Cpio: Find /home/ - Print - Cpio - of /root/backup/cpiofull

1.
CPIO
Full backup:
[root@localhost /]# find /home/ -print | cpio -oF /root/backup/cpiofull

11 blocks
Incremental backup 1:
[root@localhost /]# touch /home/newfile1 /home/newfile2

[root@localhost /]# find /home/ -cnewer /root/backup/cpiofull -print
/home/newfile1
/home/newfile2
[root@localhost /]# find /home/ -cnewer /root/backup/cpiofull -print | cpio -oF
/root/backup/cpioinc1
4 blocks
Incremental backup 2:
[root@localhost /]# touch /home/newfile3

[root@localhost /]# touch /home/newfile4
[root@localhost /]# find /home/ -cnewer /root/backup/cpioinc1 -print
/home/newfile4
/home/newfile3
[root@localhost /]# find /home/ -cnewer /root/backup/cpioinc1 -print | cpio -oF
/root/backup/cpioinc2
4 blocks
And so on for next incremental backups.
Check our backup files:
[root@localhost /]# cpio -tF /root/backup/cpioinc1 2>/dev/null

home/
home/newfile1
home/newfile2
[root@localhost /]# cpio -tF /root/backup/cpioinc2 2>/dev/null
home/
home/newfile4
home/newfile3
Restore:
Restore Full backup:

[root@localhost /]# rm -rf /home/*
[root@localhost /]# ls /home/
[root@localhost /]# cd /
[root@localhost /]# cpio -iF /root/backup/cpiofull 2>/dev/null
[root@localhost /]# ls home/
user1 user2 user3 user4 users
Restore Incremental backup 1:
[root@localhost /]# cpio -iF /root/backup/cpioinc1 2>/dev/null

[root@localhost /]# ls /home/
newfile1 newfile2 user1 user2 user3 user4 users
Restore Incremental backup 2:
[root@localhost /]# cpio -iF /root/backup/cpioinc2 2>/dev/null

[root@localhost /]# ls home/
newfile1 newfile2 newfile3 newfile4 user1 user2 user3 user4 users
Done.
2. PAX
Create full backup
[root@localhost ~]# pax -wf /root/backup/$(date +%d%m%Y) /home/

[root@localhost ~]# ls -alh /root/backup/
total 200K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jan 29 00:59 .
drwxr-x— 20 root root 4.0K Jan 29 00:17 ..
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 40K Jan 29 00:59 29012012
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 5.5K Jan 29 00:42 cpiofull
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 512 Jan 29 00:43 cpioinc1
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Jan 29 00:29 home
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 40K Jan 27 05:21 paxbackup
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 10K Jan 28 00:00 Sat
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 40K Jan 28 00:00 Sat1
Create Incremential backup 1. We’ve done the full backup for the date “29 Jan” so next we will
do incremental backup for “30 Jan”. Just set the date to what we want.
[root@localhost ~]# date

Sun Jan 29 00:59:56 ICT 2012
[root@localhost ~]# date -s “30 Jan 2012″

Mon Jan 30 00:00:00 ICT 2012
[root@localhost ~]# touch /home/newfile1 /home/newfile2
[root@localhost ~]# pax -T 0000 -wf /root/backup/$(date +%d%m%Y) /home
total 104K
Create Incremential backup 2 for 31 Jan.
[root@localhost ~]# date

Mon Jan 30 00:07:18 ICT 2012
[root@localhost ~]# date -s “31 Jan 2012″
Tue Jan 31 00:00:00 ICT 2012
[root@localhost ~]# touch /home/
newfile1 newfile2 user1/ user2/ user3/ user4/ users/
[root@localhost ~]# touch /home/newfile3
[root@localhost ~]# echo “newline” >> /home/newfile1
[root@localhost ~]# pax -T 0000 -wf /root/backup/$(date +%d%m%Y) /home/
total 120K
Restore. We follow the backup order respectedly.
[root@centos ~]# rm -rf /home/*

[root@centos ~]# pax -rf /root/backup/29012012
[root@centos ~]# ls /home/
user1 user2 user3 user4 users

newfile1 newfile2 user1 user2 user3 user4 users
[root@centos ~]# cat /home/newfile1
newfile1 newfile2 newfile3 user1 user2 user3 user4 users
[root@centos ~]# cat /home/newfile1
newline
3. Dump
Dump is a nice tool to backup an entire filesystem (not for a specific subdirectory). It supports
full and incremental backup in nature.
Create full backup
[root@centos ~]# mount

/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/doc type ext3 (rw)
[root@centos ~]# dump -0uf /root/backup/full /mnt/doc
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Jan 31 01:42:20 2012

DUMP: Dumping /dev/sdb1 (/mnt/doc) to /root/backup/full
DUMP: Label: none
DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 475 blocks.
DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Tue Jan 31 01:42:25 2012
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: Closing /root/backup/full
DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Tue Jan 31 01:42:25 2012
DUMP: Volume 1 490 blocks (0.48MB)
DUMP: 490 blocks (0.48MB) on 1 volume(s)
DUMP: finished in less than a second
DUMP: Date this dump completed: Tue Jan 31 01:42:25 2012
DUMP: Average transfer rate: 0 kB/s
DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
[root@centos ~]# ls -alh /root/backup/
total 580K
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 490K Jan 31 01:42 full
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 10K Mar 8 2012 home08032012
Create incremental backup 1
[root@centos ~]# touch /mnt/doc/file1 /mnt/doc/file2

[root@centos ~]# dump -1uf /root/backup/incremental1 /mnt/doc

DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Tue Jan 31 01:42:20 2012
DUMP: Dumping /dev/sdb1 (/mnt/doc) to /root/backup/incremental1
DUMP: Label: none
DUMP: Closing /root/backup/incremental1
DUMP: DUMP IS DONE

total 1.1M
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 480K Jan 31 01:44 incremental1
Create incremental backup 2:
[root@centos ~]# touch /mnt/doc/newfile3

[root@centos ~]# echo “new line” >> /mnt/doc/file1
[root@centos ~]# dump -2uf /root/backup/incremental2 /mnt/doc
DUMP: Date of last level 1 dump: Tue Jan 31 01:44:55 2012
DUMP: Dumping /dev/sdb1 (/mnt/doc) to /root/backup/incremental2
DUMP: Label: none
DUMP: Closing /root/backup/incremental2
DUMP: DUMP IS DONE

total 1.6M
Restore:
[root@centos mnt]# rm -rf /mnt/doc/*

[root@centos mnt]# cd /mnt/doc
[root@centos doc]# ls
[root@centos doc]# restore -rf /root/backup/full
dir1 dir2 dir3 restoresymtable
[root@centos doc]# restore -rf /root/backup/incremental1
dir1 dir2 dir3 file1 file2 restoresymtable
[root@centos doc]# cat file1
[root@centos doc]# restore -rf /root/backup/incremental2
dir1 dir2 dir3 file1 file2 newfile3 restoresymtable
[root@centos doc]# cat file1
new line
[root@centos doc]#

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[root@localhost /]# find /home/ -print | cpio -oF /root/backup/cpiofull

[root@localhost /]# touch /home/newfile1 /home/newfile2

[root@localhost /]# touch /home/newfile3

And so on for next incremental backups.

Check our backup files:

[root@localhost /]# cpio -tF /root/backup/cpioinc1 2>/dev/null

Restore Full backup:

Restore Incremental backup 1:

[root@localhost /]# cpio -iF /root/backup/cpioinc1 2>/dev/null

Restore Incremental backup 2:

[root@localhost /]# cpio -iF /root/backup/cpioinc2 2>/dev/null

Create full backup

[root@localhost ~]# pax -wf /root/backup/$(date +%d%m%Y) /home/

[root@localhost ~]# date

[root@localhost ~]# date -s “30 Jan 2012″

Create Incremential backup 2 for 31 Jan.

[root@localhost ~]# date

Restore. We follow the backup order respectedly.

[root@centos ~]# rm -rf /home/*

[root@centos ~]# pax -rf /root/backup/30012012

Create full backup

[root@centos ~]# mount

[root@centos ~]# dump -0uf /root/backup/full /mnt/doc

DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Jan 31 01:42:20 2012

Create incremental backup 1

[root@centos ~]# touch /mnt/doc/file1 /mnt/doc/file2

DUMP: Date of this level 1 dump: Tue Jan 31 01:44:55 2012

[root@centos ~]# ls -alh /root/backup/

Create incremental backup 2:

[root@centos ~]# touch /mnt/doc/newfile3

[root@centos ~]# ls -alh /root/backup/

[root@centos mnt]# rm -rf /mnt/doc/*

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