On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:16:25AM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > - /sys ... > - **.iso > - **.ISO
Don't you want a single asterisk rather than two? /dev has been mentioned - don't back that up, the startup process builds that. Make sure you are using the dateext extension for logrotate. Log files grow over time, and that can create a large file at every backup. Get a spare hard drive for one of your machines, and make sure you can rebuild it from backups. The main reason for backups is to restore after an accident or foul play, which hever happens when you have time to deal with it. So you want to be ready and practiced and have notes and all the tools necessary to do a restore as fast as possible, so you don't have to delay important projects for days while you gather the hardware and information to do a recovery. I use dirvish and make full-image backups because I can directly examine and copy those images back onto a restore disk. I even put a distro and restore tools on each backup disk so I can boot from them. I know these evil computers will fail and eat my data at the worst possible moment, and I want a restore process that I can start up and let run automatically for a few hours while I nap, because I know I won't get a full night's sleep when I must somehow find extra time to do an unplanned restore. Making backup easy and restore difficult is pointless wanking. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
