Another way to do (I do it actually)
Is to get a drive with ext3 partition for example
Create a directory for your backup
and use Rsync to copy any file with differential feature.
First time could take a long time, next time are very fast.
To backup everythink on the system, I run the single use mode,
It kill all the application runned ... so after, I mount bind root fs and over
sub fs in tmp dir, mount my backup dir in another tmp dir
and run mirror with rsync
Fast, excellent, could easyly be migrate on another kind of server, or could
restore only some filesystem.
It's good !
Good luck
Le Wednesday 05 March 2008 12:55:41 Michael Schmarck, vous avez écrit :
Crayon Shin Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 02 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What supports what is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For
example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these
years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device
backup if you like. This is your basic choice in backup - device or
fs. Me personally, dd_rescue - far better than raw dd.
The advantage of something like partimage, which knows about the
filesystem being backed up, is that it can back up only the used portions
of the fs.
Yes, it can. But you achieve the same (only used stuff is backed up)
with a simpler tool like tar as well.
So eg if you're backing up a 20GB partition of which only 1GB
is in use, then using partimage it will be very quick and the resulting
image very small.
Then the tar file will also be just 1GB.
I really don't see the benefit in using things like partimage or
Ghost.
Michael
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