Hello Rick!  
    
  Monday June 08 2020 20:54, you wrote to All:  
    
  > Greetings All!  
    
    
  > I was wondering if anyone can recommend a backup program, I would like  
  > to run (auto if possible) routine that can back up certain directories  
  > and ftp it to my NAS, I have a routine for the ftp part if the backup  
  > program cant do that piece..  
    
  I use rsync as two streams for  / partition as root and /home for all user  
  areas.  
    
  See below scripts :  
    
  Home :  
    
  #!/bin/bash  
  time rsync -avvuhh --stats --delete --exclude=/home/vince/Music2 /home  
  /home/vince/Music2/Backups > rsync-home.log 2>rsync-home.err  
  exit 0  
    
    
  Boot:  
    
  #!/bin/bash  
  time rsync -avvuhh --stats --delete --exclude=/dev --exclude=/proc  
  --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/run --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/home --  
  exclude=/media  
  --exclude=/sys / /home/vince/Music2/Backups/SSD-Mageia-v7-HDD > rsync-root.  
  log  
  2>rsync-root.err  
  exit 0  
    
    
  Mind you trying to make an image of the boot (/) back up to another drive (a  
  SSD) mounted as /mnt/disk1 does not work as it create a directory 2 with 2  
  blocks of restored data as / and disk1 both in the directory I am running it  
  from.  
    
  Mounted devices :  
    
  $ df  
  Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on  
  /dev/sdc3        88G   18G   66G  22% /mnt/disk1  
  /dev/sda9       992G  607G  335G  65% /home  
  /dev/sdb1       2.7T  873G  1.9T  32% /home/vince/Music2  
    
  I have ommitted some systems.  
    
    
  Vincent  
    
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