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On Saturday 15 November 2008 07:08:42 pm Mick 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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> > > 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 |
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> some reading to do. ;-) |
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> Whenever I have used tar to back up a whole OS I used it with a LiveCD. |
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> This was to make sure that files and their metadata were not being changed |
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> while I was tar'ing them. |
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> Are you saying that I can actually fire up tar/rsync and back up in real |
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> time? |
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> I was gravitating towards using LVM snapshot and then tar'ing that to an |
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> external USB drive. |
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If you need to guarantee a backup without the data being changed during the |
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process... you gotta take the server down. The easiest way is to init 1 to |
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single user mode , make your backup, then init x back to what ever runlevel |
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you were in... |
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From the desk of: |
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Jerome D. McBride |
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