[gentoo-user] Re: Backing up my box

[Francesco Talamona <ti.liame@email.it>]

On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Mark Somerville wrote:
> 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

(Supposing both boxes are Linux ones) Sometime I use 
app-backup/rdiff-backup, it's quite easy and effective.

Ciao
	Francesco
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