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+++ David [gentoo-user] [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:44:46PM +0200]: |
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> Hi, |
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> I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not |
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> interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root |
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> filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and |
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> rsync to keep it updated. How do you make your backups? |
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> Any improvements?. |
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I've used bacula in the past to do backups. It's very full featured but |
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also rather complicated for simple backups. |
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These days I use an rsync-based backup script I wrote called 'yarbs' (yet |
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another rsync backup system). |
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It uses rsync and hard links to keep X days of backups. Easy to use, easy |
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to recover from, easy to setup. I can make it available if anyone's |
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interested. |
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If you're using 'dd' does that mean you're copying the entire filesystem |
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and not just the files? I believe that can run you into some issues if the |
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FS isn't read-only... |
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