Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:49:34
Message-Id: 4F0E9E3D.7000609@hadt.biz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server by Paul Hartman
1 > I'm curious what you, collective Gentoo-users, may be using to solve
2 > this problem. rsync, rdiff-backup, rsnapshot, dirvish, bacula,
3 > tar+ssh...?
4
5 rsync -av --delete --delete-excluded \
6 --exclude=/dev/ \
7 --exclude=/proc/ \
8 --exclude=/sys/ \
9 --exclude=/tmp/ \
10 --exclude=/usr/portage/ \
11 --exclude=/var/portage/ \
12 --exclude=/var/run/ \
13 --exclude=/var/tmp/ \
14 / bak@××××××××××××××××.bar:/mnt/backup/machine1/
15
16 I exclude the portage tree, no reason to bak it up. emerge --sync and
17 you're done.
18
19 To restore I just boot into the rescue system of my server hoster and do a
20
21 rsync -av --delete --delete-excluded \
22 bak@××××××××××××××××.bar:/mnt/backup/machine1/ /

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Re: [gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>