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> You did not tell us what are you trying to backup; entire system or just |
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> particular files. |
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Right now I'm working on particular files and folders but it sounds |
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nice to eventually back up each system in its entirety. That does |
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sounds like a lot of data to move offsite though. |
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> Are you afraid of updates or data loss? |
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I'm mainly thinking about data loss and break-ins. With updates I |
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find that the problematic package is usually fairly obvious and Gentoo |
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makes it easy to roll back, especially with FEATURES="buildpkg". |
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> I have two machine in remote location as well. So I usually upgrade my |
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> local machine first, wait one week and if there are no surprises I upgrade |
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> remote main server first. If everything goes OK (no surprises and/or |
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> complains), I upgrade remote backup machine. |
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> I run "vpn" so I just use rsync over vpn to make an incremental backup daily |
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> (Mon. to Fri.). |
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That's the same sort of backup process I'm working on. I have a |
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similar staggered update strategy as well. It came in handy with the |
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udev network device name change recently. |
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- Grant |
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