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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 some |
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> reading to do. ;-) |
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> Whenever I have used tar to back up a whole OS I used it with a LiveCD. This |
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> was to make sure that files and their metadata were not being changed while I |
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> was tar'ing them. |
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> Are you saying that I can actually fire up tar/rsync and back up in real 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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I have read that you can use tar while the system is running. I |
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wouldn't do that during say a emerge or something tho. I would try to |
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keep the system somewhat idle as far as changing files. |
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My cp command works fine on a running system with the same advice as |
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above on the system being idle tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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