Backups
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Daily Backups at SOCS
Our file server does nightly backups of your home directories. Those who need a file restored need simply send a request to help@cs.mcgill.ca
We EXCLUDE the following files and directories: (please check this monthly as it is subject to change)
exclude Cache/ exclude Caches/ exclude Dropbox/ exclude Movies/ exclude Music/ exclude My?Music/ exclude My?Videos/ exclude NOBACKUP/ exclude Pictures/ exclude Trash/ exclude Trashes/ exclude temp/ exclude .gvfs-metadata/ exclude .Trash/ exclude .Trashes/ exclude .trash/ exclude .dropbox/ exclude .nfs* exclude urlclassifier3.sqlite exclude /~* exclude *.tmp exclude *.wmv exclude *.rpm exclude *.deb exclude *.avi exclude *.mpg exclude *.mp3 exclude *.m4a exclude *.iso exclude core exclude .DS_Store
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Backups for MCB laptop users
To backup your laptop please follow the following steps.
- Confirm with systems staff that you have a /home/mcb/user directory.
- Create a ssh key on your laptop (you can choose whether to have a passphrase or not)
ssh-keygen -t rsa
- Add the newly generated key to your authorized_keys file on linux.cs.mcgill.ca (or any other cs machine)
scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub username@linux.cs.mcgill.ca:.ssh/laptop-key.pub ssh linux.cs.mcgill.ca cd .ssh cat laptop-key.pub >> authorized_keys
- Create your LAPTOP-BACKUP directory
ssh linux.cs.mcgill.ca mkdir LAPTOP-BACKUP
- Decide which directory tree you would like to backup, or create a new one for backup purposes
mkdir ~/Research
- Craft a rsync backup script
# backup contents of ~/Research to /home/mcb/username/LAPTOP-BACKUP rsync -a --delete-after ~/Research/ username@linux.cs.mcgill.ca:LAPTOP-BACKUP/