Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Schmarck <michael.schmarck@×××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 06:02:30
Message-Id: fvrgkv$s4$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system by David
1 David <dcorraly@××××××××××.com> wrote:
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3 >
4 > Hi,
5 >
6 > I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not
7 > interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root
8 > filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and
9 > rsync to keep it updated. How do you make your backups?
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11 I wouldn't do DD images. Too inflexible.
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13 I do backups using rsnapshot, which basically just makes a copy with
14 rsync of all the files on all the filesystems.
15
16 > Any improvements?.
17
18 Dump dd.
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20 Michael
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