We have servers (some Gentoo, some FreeBSD, etc) and we are currently using something called flexbackup to make backups that get pulled to a central storage server. flexbackup uses dump so it works at the partition level to make backups.
My problem is this: flexbackup cannot be used to backup *part* of a filesystem - for example, it makes no sense to backup /usr/portage when making a backup of /usr. Im wondering if anyone has written a script (or maybe there's a tool to do this) that will make binary packages of everything installed on a server which can then be used to perform very quick restores in the event of a major failure? Or maybe someone has a script or procedure for making a custom LiveCD that can be used to perform a reinstall from binary packages in a fully (or semi-) automated way. There must be something out there that can help? -- -- [email protected] mailing list
