Re: [gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

[tlze]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a remote Gentoo virtual server and want to implement a better
> backup/restore plan. There is no physical access to the server, so any
> backup must be done over the Internet. Right now I just create the
> occasional tarball and download it, and have used tar+ssh to restore,
> but that's not complicated enough. ;)
>
> The whole data uncompressed is about 5GiB but of course I can exclude
> distfiles and save a lot of bytes. I don't need a dd backup of the
> whole disk, just backup of its contents (complete system including /
> and everything in it)
>
> I'm curious what you, collective Gentoo-users, may be using to solve
> this problem. rsync, rdiff-backup, rsnapshot, dirvish, bacula,
> tar+ssh...?
>
> To me, one of the most important things of any backup solution is the
> ease at which data can be restored. In my case, restoration would
> probably happen from remotely booting into a recovery liveCD or on a
> new Gentoo virtual server image.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
tar czf – file| ssh server “cat > file.tar.gz”
"-" Standard output
(I know a little Englis)

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tlze