On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 01:01 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2011 12:30 AM, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi :) > > > > > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs > on my > > > machine. > > > > > > Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one of those > installs? > > > > > > With a lack of knowledge I would backup the 3 Linux that aren't > running, > > > by the running Linux and than boot another Linux install, to > backup the > > > previously running Linux. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Ralf > > > > You'll need to establish network communications amon gthe Linux > > systems, with some tool with enough privileges to copy the data. > > Excellent freeware tools include Amanda (for tape backup), which > runs > > a server on one host and clients on the same host and other hosts > > typically, and rsnapshot, which is much easier to recover lost files > > with and pretty much relies on a central server to have enough space > > to copy the live contents of the other systems. > > I have used Amanda with disks. > > Per using puppet; it just works. I mean, I haven't used it to mess > with proc and sys but I'm almost certain it'll work for that. > > What I'm recommending is that you take your base system (debian, > centos, bsd, osx, whatever) and then figure out what configuration > changes you need and configure puppet likewise. Figure out if there > are any packages you install that aren't provided by your distro and > make a repo of those packages locally. Then, if you need to restore, > you can do as little or as much manual labor as you want, or you can > sit back and eat some twinkies as your system rebuilds itself. > > Note, I don't have my stuff down to this fine of a science. I just > know I can with what I use. I also like systems that are pretty > universal - puppet and Amanda are two such programs. > > That being said, no one needs a complicated life. Just setup a public > key with ssh for a user with privileges to what you want to backup and > setup a cron job to rsync your data on your host. And if you want to > save your mbr + partition table, just dd the first 512 bytes off each > client and back that up too (just mbr is 448 bytes IIRC).
For the mbrs it's exactly what I did. For the Linux installs a completely tar.gz is the fastest and easiest solution. Note, my installs are very small, an archive might reach a max. of 3 GB, if I don't backup some trash, e.g. a collection of old, unused kernels. For Debian until now the archive didn't reach even 1GB. I do believe that for another usage of Linux, a backup could become to large ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1307003107.6103.27.camel@debian
