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From: Mark Somerville <mark@scottishclimbs.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Backing up my box
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:03:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070424100327.GA2879@pentlands.xeriom.net> (raw)

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I've got an 8Gb Gentoo virtual machine that I'm working out a backup
plan for. Since the disk space is pretty small, I'm thinking about just
taking a full image of the disk for backups, rather than cherry-picking
DBs, mail, etc.

I'd like to take a full image every day (but only transfer the 
differences), which I'll store for a week. Does this sound like a 
reasonable enough approach?

My initial thoughts were just to use rsync to grab everything. Would
this be appropriate for this kind of backup? Is there a better tool to
get the job done?

Any suggestions appreciated,

Mark

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-04-24 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-24 10:03 Mark Somerville [this message]
2007-04-24 17:57 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Backing up my box Francesco Talamona
2007-04-26 21:37   ` Mark Somerville
2007-04-24 19:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Vladimir Rusinov

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