Mark Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:45:04PM +0000, Mick wrote: >> Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) >> >> What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? > > I like rdiff-backup, which gives incremental backups over rsync.
I just started playing with rdiff-backup. If you are familiar with rsnapshot maybe you'll know if rdiff-backup is better in some way. I've been using rsnapshot for quite a while but haven't had to do a serious restore (knock on wood). The small scale restores I've needed seemed to be something of a pita. I guess you have to search the rsnapshot created hardlinks for the version you want manually. At least that is what I ended up doing. There may be better ways but rsnapshot doesn't supply any help in that regard far as I know. Other than the biggest part of having created the file you need that is.
