Hi, I have a remote Gentoo virtual server and want to implement a better backup/restore plan. There is no physical access to the server, so any backup must be done over the Internet. Right now I just create the occasional tarball and download it, and have used tar+ssh to restore, but that's not complicated enough. ;)
The whole data uncompressed is about 5GiB but of course I can exclude distfiles and save a lot of bytes. I don't need a dd backup of the whole disk, just backup of its contents (complete system including / and everything in it) I'm curious what you, collective Gentoo-users, may be using to solve this problem. rsync, rdiff-backup, rsnapshot, dirvish, bacula, tar+ssh...? To me, one of the most important things of any backup solution is the ease at which data can be restored. In my case, restoration would probably happen from remotely booting into a recovery liveCD or on a new Gentoo virtual server image. Thanks, Paul
