Hi Daniel, On 2009-10-10 01:03 UTC Daniel Einspanjer wrote: > 1. I'd like an almost complete backup of my entire server from / > 2. I know I have to exclude a few things to prevent bad problems (no > /proc, and --exclude-sockets also seemed to be necessary) > 3. There are a couple of directories that I don't want at all (some > website mirrors I host), so those go into --exclude as well.
That sounds right :) > Now here is the fun part and my question: I think it would be > convenient to have my /var/log directory backed up, but I really > don't see the value in recording every incremental change of all > those files, so I was hoping to implement the following rule: > > 4. Copy /var/log, but don't keep more than 1 incremental of it (or > none if doing just one is difficult). > > I've thought of a couple of ways to do this: > a. exclude the directory from rdiff-backup, and then just rsync that > one directory afterward (but would subsequent rdiff-backups delete > those files? > b. run rdiff-backup twice, once excluding /var/log and > once including only it and using the --remove-older-than 1B option > c. run rdiff-backup twice, but store the the /var/log in a completely > separate target tree (seems safest, but also the most work to > maintain and restore from) > d. Some magic bullet I've overlooked I'd go for d ;) This could be very close to a: Run rdiff-backup and exclude /var/log, then run rsync to a destination *outside the rdiff-backup repository* (and document this fact well). c is also good, but then you have your increments (which you don't want), and would have to delete them, which would be a waste of resources. Also, since Log files tend to change during backup, and rdiff-backup (currently) doesn't backup files that have changed during the backup at all, you could end up having no backup of some logs at all. b will probably not work on the same repository. Patrick. -- Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4
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