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On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:44 PM, David <dcorraly@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> Thanks in advance |
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See my recent (over the weekend) thread entitled "tar a brand new |
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Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?" |
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about using tar to save a brand new system. |
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In that thread one person pointed me toward this page: |
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http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/GNU/Linux_System_Backup_Script_(stage4) |
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which I tried out. It seemed to work OK for me. I had to edit jsut a |
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coupl eof lines to work with my setup |
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but other than that I got a number of backups created. Not too difficult. |
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- Mark |
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