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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote: |
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>> Mick wrote: |
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>> > Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my |
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>> > memory!) |
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>> > |
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>> > What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off |
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>> > line? |
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>> I keep mine simple, cp -auv paths/you/want/to/backup back/up/to It has |
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>> works so far. Thought about doing a cron job but that complicates |
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>> things. :/ |
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> Thank you all for the suggestions and for the link to the wiki! I've got some |
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> reading to do. ;-) |
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> Whenever I have used tar to back up a whole OS I used it with a LiveCD. This |
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> was to make sure that files and their metadata were not being changed while I |
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> was tar'ing them. |
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> Are you saying that I can actually fire up tar/rsync and back up in real time? |
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Please read tar's texinfo manual, at least the section |
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5 Performing Backups and Restoring Files |
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It is short, and nicely divided in subsections making it is easy to |
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select you need/want to read. Not like a man page, which for me is |
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useful as a reference but horrible at teaching how to use the program |
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(unless the program is quite simple). |
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Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds |
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