From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HgPOU-0004TJ-RT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:05:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3OI3rjZ010501; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:03:53 GMT Received: from aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (aa013msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.73]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3OHvoXe001067 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:57:50 GMT Received: from [1.36.68.33] (1.36.68.33) by aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (7.3.105.6) id 46278436004E7484 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:57:50 +0200 From: Francesco Talamona To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Backing up my box Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:57:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070424100327.GA2879@pentlands.xeriom.net> In-Reply-To: <20070424100327.GA2879@pentlands.xeriom.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704241957.49916.ti.liame@email.it> X-Archives-Salt: b178c2d0-bf56-4fc2-aad2-cedb0a48263a X-Archives-Hash: 6fbdd622094479c16bed7f2e71669c5b 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 -- Linux Version 2.6.20-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Fri Apr 20 17:31:11 CEST 2007 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2003.99 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list