+++ David [gentoo-user] [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:44:46PM +0200]: > > Hi, > > I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not > interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root > filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and > rsync to keep it updated. How do you make your backups? > Any improvements?. I've used bacula in the past to do backups. It's very full featured but also rather complicated for simple backups.
These days I use an rsync-based backup script I wrote called 'yarbs' (yet another rsync backup system). It uses rsync and hard links to keep X days of backups. Easy to use, easy to recover from, easy to setup. I can make it available if anyone's interested. If you're using 'dd' does that mean you're copying the entire filesystem and not just the files? I believe that can run you into some issues if the FS isn't read-only... -- // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com // GPG public key: http://www.edespot.com/~amackenz/public.key // Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand // progress. // - Alan Perlis
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