Hi Flavio,
If I am honest, I only back up critical files on the system (/boot,
/lib/modules, /home, /root, /etc, /usr/local, etc) using backuppc, because I
can regenerate a Debian base install without packages in about 15 minutes,
and with a relatively small package list like is generally on a firewall, I
can do an apt-get dselect install from the previous package list in about
the same amount of time as a restore. YMMV, of course, but one side benefit
is that I get a fresh machine out of the deal.
I've really had pretty good experience with a variety of boxes doing it this
way, but it all has to do with your needs.
--b
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Boniforti Flavio <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello people.
>
> I need to back up my Debian server, which mainly acts as a gateway
> (iptables) and proxy (squid). I’d like to back it up in a way that should
> enable me to recover the whole system onto a new harddisk drive, if the
> actual one would fail.
> Is backupPC right for this purpose, or would it be better to take some sort
> of “snapshots” with some other software/tool?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
>
> Flavio Boniforti
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