On 07/25 04:01 , Mark Miksis wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome <at> real-time.com> writes: > > this is why I turn off compression on the backups of localhost. if you look > > at the tree of files, they're still not quite a live copy; but close enough > > to be usable if you only needed a few of them. > > Thanks for the feedback. I've thought of this, but I'd like to avoid turning > off compression, especially if the alternative is as simple as keeping an > extra > copy of 2 or 3 small config files.
localhost's backups, at least on a dedicated server, aren't really that big. few hundred MB. I don't worry about it. backing up the whole machine also means that if some binary file on the machine is lost, which breaks everything (been there, seen that), then it's fairly straightforward to recover that file. if you're really concerned about it, just back up /etc non-compressed; or keep a separate live or semi-live backup using mondo, rsnapshot, or the like. (redundant backups are a good thing in any case; I still use my ancient Amanda server as a redundant and offsite backup system for some hosts). > > > - backuppc user's ssh keypair (and known_hosts?) > > > > dunno about other distros, but under Debian, the backuppc user's homedir is > > the same as __TOPDIR__ (/var/lib/backuppc). > > > Good point. I guess this addresses the per-PC config files too. per-pc config files should be under /etc/backuppc; tho I guess this probably varies by installation. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
