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Hi guys, |
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My back-up setup with rdiff-backup is going very smoothly so far. |
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Skipping /usr/portage/distfiles really saved me a lot of time/space. I |
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just have one more question. |
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In the below email, Anthony excludes /var/cache/edb. Wondering what this |
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directory is for, and why I should exclude it? |
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Just want make sure I'm not excluding something that I'll need, should I |
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ever have to actually use this backup. |
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b |
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Anthony Gorecki wrote: |
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> Here is the script I use for my nightly backups, network-wide, as an example: |
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> #!/bin/sh |
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> exec rsync -xPHa --numeric-ids --delete-excluded --exclude=/tmp \ |
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> --exclude=/var/tmp --exclude=/sys --exclude=/proc --exclude=/dev \ |
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> --exclude=/var/cache/edb --exclude=/var/db /* \ |
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> rsync://selene.nvanc.ectrolinux.com/backups-entro |
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> --- |
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> Please note the -x option, which instructs rsync to skip network-based |
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> filesystems. This command can only be run as root, and will create an |
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> identical copy of a local filesystem on the backup server: files that have no |
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> business being backed up or that would only waste disk space needlessly are |
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> excluded (/usr/portage should be in the exclude list above, however it's |
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> automatically excluded by the -x option on my machines). |
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> Steam encryption and compression can also be worth-while, depending on the |
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> environment. Typically, encrypting the stream is a good idea, which is |
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> something I plan to implement on my own systems within the next few weeks. My |
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> network can happily throw around large amounts of bandwidth, therefore I |
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> choose not to waste extra system resources by compressing the data as it's |
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> being transferred. |
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> On the server end, the applicable portion of rsyncd.conf is as follows: |
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> [backups-entro] |
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> path = /var/backups/entro |
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> list = false |
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> read only = false |
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> use chroot = true |
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> uid = root |
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> gid = root |
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> hosts allow = entro.nvanc.ectrolinux.com |
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> --- |
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> I hope that provides some degree of clarification regarding one of the |
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> possible ways to implement a backup system. |
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