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Jamie wrote: |
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> I would welcome any constructive advise on this as the many hours of |
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> building a Gentoo box is not something I want to do too often so being |
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> able to image prior to any major upgrades would be a great safety net... |
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Here's my low cost backup method: rsync -aux |
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1. Get two drives which are both capable of holding all your data, |
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ideally two equally large ones. |
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2. Partition them the same way |
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3. Whenever you feel like backing up your data on eg. sda1, mount sdb1 |
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and rsync -aux <mountpoint>. The -x in the rsync command makes sure it |
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doesn't try to copy /dev or /proc. -u speeds up the things a bit if |
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you're impatient. |
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4. Now your harddrive broke. Buy a new one. (If you bought a Maxtor it |
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is likely that it breaks before guarantee runs out so you get one for |
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free!) Meanwhile, swap the disks and continue to use your system. |
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I've been doing this for the past two years or so. It may not be the |
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perfect backup system, but it is damn cheap and easy in maintenance. |
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Plus it has the advantage that you can continue using your system |
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immediately, when you would have to wait for your vendor to ship a new |
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disk with every other method. |
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Kind Regards, |
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Simon Stelling |
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Gentoo/AMD64 developer |
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