[gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

[Paul Hartman]

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