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On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Mark Somerville wrote: |
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> I've got an 8Gb Gentoo virtual machine that I'm working out a backup |
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> plan for. Since the disk space is pretty small, I'm thinking about |
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> just taking a full image of the disk for backups, rather than |
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> cherry-picking DBs, mail, etc. |
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> I'd like to take a full image every day (but only transfer the |
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> differences), which I'll store for a week. Does this sound like a |
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> reasonable enough approach? |
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> My initial thoughts were just to use rsync to grab everything. Would |
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> this be appropriate for this kind of backup? Is there a better tool |
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> to get the job done? |
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> Any suggestions appreciated, |
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> Mark |
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(Supposing both boxes are Linux ones) Sometime I use |
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app-backup/rdiff-backup, it's quite easy and effective. |
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Ciao |
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Francesco |
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Linux Version 2.6.20-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Fri Apr 20 17:31:11 |
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CEST 2007 |
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One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2003.99 Bogomips Total |
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aemaeth |
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