On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 17:13 +0000, Mal Herring wrote: > Hi Gentoo-User, > I'm looking to use rsnapshot to perform a FULL backup on a daily basis > of a production server to another server off-site. > > My question is - Do I understand that rsnapshot can be used for this > task ? And which directory's should I backup - I am not 100% sure which > are must have's and which are not. > > Thanks in advance.
I don't use rsnapshot, but I do use rsync in my own little scripts to do the same things. The important thing is the -a and -D flags. -a is a series of useful flags, as seen in the man page. And -D handles device files properly, so it really is safe to back up /dev . Having /dev backed up is nice in the case you need to restore, and learn the hard way not having /dev/console and /dev/null at the minimum at boot means you can't boot. You could exlude /proc and /sys , but really it doesn't make much of a difference. Be sure to include /boot , and note that you might have that as a seperate partition, and not automatically mounted at boot. So be sure it's mounted at backup time, then umount it afterwards. -- [email protected] mailing list
