Federico A. Gregorio said: > i'm backing up my precious server into another hdd, and im wondering what > are the steps to make that backup hdd the exact copy of my server (not > including the /home directory). the server is in an 80GB hdd, / partition > is 20GB, 600MB is used; 60GB is alloted to /home). the backup hdd is 10GB. > > i'm a dd user but as far as i know is that i need to have identical drives > to make a sucessful replica (done dd a few months back). i've also tried > dump + restore but some files are not included/missing (ie apache).
i use rsync. it works wonderfully for local and remote file/filesystem synchronization. another great thing by andrew tridgel (creator of samba). has all the options i want, and many great others i never thought of, delete, keep deleted, exclude files, preserve permission, preserve gid/uid only copies the difference of the file/filesystem instead of the entire file/filesystem/blog. can also work on top of ssh for compression and encryption (good if your cpus are faster than your lines (compress & encrypt versus bandwidth)) then configure ssh for passwordless login (in you own secure network) and put the scripts in crontab and you have a worriless backup solution :) -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
