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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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> > |
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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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Regards, |
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Mick |
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