[gentoo-user] Backing up my box

[gentoo-user] Backing up my box

[Mark Somerville]

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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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[gentoo-user] Re: Backing up my box

[Francesco Talamona]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up my box

[Vladimir Rusinov]

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On 4/24/07, Mark Somerville <mark@scottishclimbs.com> 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?
>
> Any suggestions appreciated,
>

Try flexbackup.

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Vladimir Rusinov
GreenMice Solutions: opensource IT solutions
http://greenmice.info/

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backing up my box

[Mark Somerville]

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On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:57:49PM +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> (Supposing both boxes are Linux ones) Sometime I use 
> app-backup/rdiff-backup, it's quite easy and effective.

I've started using rdiff-backup, it's really nice.

Thanks a lot for the pointer!

Mark

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