Re: [gentoo-user] BACKUPS

2014-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/09/2014 07:32, Joseph wrote: Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer on how to backup a system. Did it even occur to you at all to type that exact question into a search engine and see what comes back? Come on dude, we aren't here to do ALL your thinking for

Re: [gentoo-user] BACKUPS

2014-09-10 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/09/2014 07:32, Joseph wrote: Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer on how to backup a system. Did it even occur to you at all to type that exact question into a search engine and see what comes back? Come on dude, we aren't here to

Re: [gentoo-user] BACKUPS

2014-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 02:47:26 AM Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/09/2014 07:32, Joseph wrote: Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer on how to backup a system. Did it even occur to you at all to type that exact question into a search

Re: [gentoo-user] BACKUPS

2014-09-10 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 02:47:26 AM Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/09/2014 07:32, Joseph wrote: Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer on how to backup a system. Did it even occur to you at all to type

Re: [gentoo-user] BACKUPS

2014-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:14:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer on how to backup a system. Did it even occur to you at all to type that exact question into a search engine and see what comes back? And if you then need to ask

Re: [gentoo-user] BACKUPS

2014-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/09/2014 10:03, Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 02:47:26 AM Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/09/2014 07:32, Joseph wrote: Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer on how to backup a system. Did it

Re: [gentoo-user] BACKUPS

2014-09-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/09/2014 06:32, Joseph wrote: On 09/10/14 06:10, Kerin Millar wrote: snip Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer on how to backup a system. I just had a HD crash so I selected a replacement SSD and I'm re installing the software. I had backup of /etc/ and

Re: [gentoo-user] BACKUPS

2014-09-09 Thread Joseph
On 09/10/14 06:10, Kerin Millar wrote: [snip] I just extracted the files with tar... I read your forum post and can see that you're (dangerously) extracting directly into the root directory and that this is among the contents of the archive: ./usr/lib/ ./usr/lib/libbrcomplpr2.so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-28 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 27 May 2014 23:35:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 27/05/2014 17:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: I have a yearly (full), monthly, weekly and daily. Each incremental is against the most recent one of itself or longer period. That means having to keep multiple snapshots active, which I prefer to

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-28 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 27 May 2014 11:32:22 Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:21 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Does anyone know how these will handle (and perform) with a possible 300+ snapshots per filesystem (or volume, as I think it's called)? I can't speak for zfs. I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 May 2014 12:03 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Always important. I just saw the other email which states that the latest sysresccd supports it. That is fine for me. Sysresccd has supported btrfs for some time. I realise my mail could have been read otherwise, but the reason for

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-28 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 27 May 2014 11:28:17 Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:12 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:31:26 AM Rich Freeman wrote: btrfs wouldn't have any issues with this at all. You'd have an advantage in that you wouldn't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: app-backup/dar uses catalogues for the incrementals. I think I will stick to that for the foreseeable future. I used to use that and sarab (which is a wrapper). I moved on to duplicity. The problem with dar is that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/05/2014 11:58, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2014 23:35:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 27/05/2014 17:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: I have a yearly (full), monthly, weekly and daily. Each incremental is against the most recent one of itself or longer period. That means having to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-28 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 28 May 2014 13:07:49 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/05/2014 11:58, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2014 23:35:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 27/05/2014 17:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: I have a yearly (full), monthly, weekly and daily. Each incremental is against the most recent

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/05/2014 13:42, Joost Roeleveld wrote: Currently, I do the following: Every year, a full backup Then, every month, I have an incremental based on either the yearly or previous monthly. Ditto for the weekly (but then based on monthly or weekly) And again for the daily. OK,

[gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:31:26 AM Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I am still happily using LVM with snapshots. Those are instantaneous as well and I can then backup the snapshot, which on my server takes between 2 hours

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 05:12:50 PM J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:31:26 AM Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: snipped Forgot to add: For fileservers, I am starting to feel that ZFS or BTRFS snapshots are easier

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:12 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:31:26 AM Rich Freeman wrote: btrfs wouldn't have any issues with this at all. You'd have an advantage in that you wouldn't have to unmount the filesystem to cleanly create the snapshot (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:21 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Does anyone know how these will handle (and perform) with a possible 300+ snapshots per filesystem (or volume, as I think it's called)? I can't speak for zfs. I had upwards of 1000 snapshots on my system before I stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 May 2014 11:32:22 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: Oh, one other tip if you use btrfs - be sure you have a rescue disk that supports it. Hint, the old Gentoo install CD I had lying around didn't. You'll probably want to keep a rescue CD with a recent kernel and btrfs-tools handy at all

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups and snapshots [Was: Organising btrfs subvolumes]

2014-05-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/05/2014 17:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: I have a yearly (full), monthly, weekly and daily. Each incremental is against the most recent one of itself or longer period. That means having to keep multiple snapshots active, which I prefer to avoid. But, it is a good idea for backing up

[gentoo-user] backups [was: Boot speedup]

2010-04-13 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:44:31 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: Peter Humphrey writes: On Monday 12 April 2010 17:17:52 Florian Philipp wrote: Unless something is broken, I hardly ever reboot. How do you take backups? I do my backups from the running system, not from a live-cd. I create

[gentoo-user] Backups...

2010-02-27 Thread BRM
Well, now that I've got my systems cleaned up, and KDE3 removed, I'm tackling another project I've been meaning to do - backups. Here's my basic plan: - I've got a directory on my server that I want to synchronize several systems with (some linux, and one Windows). - I want clients to push the

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-10-05 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Sunday 30 September 2007 01:45:41 Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done? - Grant You might

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-10-03 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Grant, on Saturday, 2007-09-29 at 16:28:36, you wrote: Do you back up hidden files and directories in the home directory? There seems to be a lot of junk in there. Does something like '--exclude /home/user/.*' work with tar? It certainly does, but I'm quite sure it's not what you want. For

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. /usr/local too, otherwise you get to re-install

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Steen Eugen Poulsen schrieb: Grant skrev: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid,

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Grant
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC. /var contains the most

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Grant
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list A lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Grant
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC. /var contains

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Grant
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC. /var contains

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC. /var contains

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Grant
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC. /var contains the

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Christopher Copeland
On 30 Sep 2007, at 12:33, Grant wrote: Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me. Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something? - Grant Offsite backups are a good idea if your data

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Grant wrote: I keep them on an USB-stick (udf filesystem, with the same settings like a CD-RW). But where do you put the USB stick? If my apartment building burns to the ground while I'm away, I'll lose my systems and the backups. I can't believe you actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Grant
Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me. Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something? - Grant Offsite backups are a good idea if your data is important to you. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Grant
I keep them on an USB-stick (udf filesystem, with the same settings like a CD-RW). But where do you put the USB stick? If my apartment building burns to the ground while I'm away, I'll lose my systems and the backups. I can't believe you actually asked that. Think, man, think. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Grant, Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me. Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something? I use rsync.net, offsite backups using duplicity for GPG encryption. -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Grant, For now I think I'll do /etc, /root, /home, /var/lib/portage/world, /usr/src/linux/.config, and anything specific I might need in /usr/local. What else am I missing out on in /var? Other data in /var/lib. For example, any databases kept in /var/lib/mysql. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 30 September 2007 12:31:51 pm Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? snip... Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build process I run this script

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Steve Dommett
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: Other data in /var/lib. For example, any databases kept in /var/lib/mysql. Rather than backup MySQL's or Postgres' binary storage I prefer to use the relevant tool (mysqldump, pgdump[all]) to backup the database to /root/backups/ just prior to

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Jerry McBride, Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build process I run this script via cron... #!/bin/sh rm /portage.list/*.* emerge -pe --color=n system /portage.list/system.list emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 30 September 2007 06:02:30 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Jerry McBride, Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build process I run this script via cron... #!/bin/sh rm /portage.list/*.*

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Jerry McBride, Why not just backup the world list itself, /var/lib/portage/world? Your method doesn't distinguish between packages in world and their dependencies, emerging from this would result in a screwed world file. It doesn't have too. The files I listed plus a backup of /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:35:42 -0400 Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:28:36 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does something like '--exclude /home/user/.*' work with tar? - Grant Yes you may exclude files from being included. From the tar man page:

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:15:04 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Grant, For now I think I'll do /etc, /root, /home, /var/lib/portage/world, /usr/src/linux/.config, and anything specific I might need in /usr/local. What else am I missing out on in /var? Other data in

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:07 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant Don't forget to back up stuff that can help you rebuild the system quickly. Like /proc/config.gz, or better yet just the kernel and modules you

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:07 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant Don't forget to back up stuff that can help you rebuild the system quickly. Like /proc/config.gz, or better yet just

[gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Grant
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Grant
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. Do you back up hidden files and directories in the home directory? There seems to be a lot of junk in there. Does something like '--exclude

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Grant skrev: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC. /var contains

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done? - Grant man tar: -M,

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. Do you back up hidden files and directories in the home directory? yes, they contain settings, pw,

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 15:26 -0700, Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? I pretty much back up everything that's not ubiquitous on the Internet on a on an external drive. Disk space is so cheap these days so I figure why not. -- Albert W. Hopkins

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Grant
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-29 Thread Mark Shields
On 9/29/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? - Grant /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done? - Grant -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Backups... a very general question...

2006-09-27 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've recently been thinking about backup strategy... following a painful re-install after dropping a clanger during a kernel upgrade. While this seems a very basic topic, I can find surprisingly little documentation about this on-line. I need to address several entirely different kinds of

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups... a very general question...

2006-09-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:04:26 +0100, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: 3. My home directory; subversion repositories and DBMS catalogues are backed-up to a remote account. I currently do this with a cron-job which takes dumps; creates tar files; AES encrypts then uploads using SSH to the remote site...

RE: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 December 2005 19:16 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:53:27 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:26:56 -, Michael Kintzios wrote: If you get a minute, a detailed wiki howto would be useful for some of us. :-) A minute, where can I get one of those? Is it in portage? :-( -- Neil Bothwick Eagles may soar, but Wombles don't get sucked into jet engines

Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 December 2005 08:11, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:02 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table Thanks. Wonderful info. The grub info pages contain a

Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:40:32 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: how can one create bootable CDs/DVDs? Is there a simple way to transfer GRUB into the DVD/CDs? Or would dd of the /boot partition transfer the whole thing?? I created a rescue system, containing all the tools I need by following this

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-16 Thread Paweł Madej
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Thanks all for the answers until now; What i am looking for is to backup 3 servers, and a critical issue workstation. I think that you should test Bacula. that is very scalable app to backup from different sources to different media. http://www.bacula.org Greets

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-16 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
thanks. On 12/16/05, Paweł Madej [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Thanks all for the answers until now; What i am looking for is to backup 3 servers, and a critical issue workstation. I think that you should test Bacula. that is very scalable app to backup from

[gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Good day Gentoo List !!! Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux boxes ? thanks, Allan -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread brettholcomb
: [gentoo-user] Backups Good day Gentoo List !!! Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux boxes ? thanks, Allan -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux boxes ? If you can give us some more details about what you are looking for (number of boxes, backup device you want to use, whether you want simple backup or

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:53:27AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big USB hard drivesbut that's what works well for me. ditto - very easy, very efficient John pgpdB8qaDSaQE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:53:27 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big USB hard drivesbut that's what works well for me. I use rdiff-backup, which is ideal for backing up automatically to a hard drive. I run it from cron, hourly on

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable. So are my USB hard disks. Nothing against DVD backups though...I just find them too slow and small for my needs... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Thanks all for the answers until now; What i am looking for is to backup 3 servers, and a critical issue workstation. I have a storage working with samba, so my bakups will go to this samba server. I would like to make some diff bakups to save storage space :) thanks again all of you

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:04:38 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable. So are my USB hard disks. Nothing against DVD backups though...I just find them too slow and small for my needs... A fair point, although it does make keeping spare,

[OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready for writing to bootable DVDs. It makes restoring individual files very easy, and a completely hosed

Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready for writing to bootable DVDs. It makes restoring

Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:02 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table Thanks. Wonderful info. /me just bought a DVD writer. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz

Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bootable, but mkisofs. To use GRUB, you have to make a /boot/grub directory in your CD tree, and copy the stage2_eltorito file into that directory along with grub.conf/menu.lst. Oh, I forgot one thing. Instead of (hdX,X) in grub.conf, you