Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:35:43
Message-Id: 200811161135.28824.dirk.heinrichs@online.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time by Mick
1 Am Samstag, 15. November 2008 20:45:04 schrieb Mick:
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3 > Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my
4 > memory!)
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6 > What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line?
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8 I guess I would use rsnapshot to backup to another disk/machine if I had only
9 a small number of machines to backup.
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11 If the server is rather critical, or there more than a handfull of machines to
12 backup, I would think about a full featured backup suite like bacula.
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14 Both can eventually combined with using LVM snapshots.
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16 Bye...
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18 Dirk