Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

[forgottenwizard <phrexianreaper@hushmail.com>]

On 09:43 Thu 13 Mar     , "Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski" wrote:
> You should stop using rsync. Why? I've think like You couple days ago. 
> Rsync is good but, when i record DVD with backup files of OS and try to 
> restore by rsync then I started to waiting for files counting... and 
> waiting... and waiting. So I use "tar -cjvpf <arch> <dir> --exclude=/dev 
> --exclude=/proc --exclude=/root --exclude=/usr/portage/distfiles" and 
> backup work's perfect. You can use ISOMASTER to edit ISO of minimal livecd 
> of gentoo and add archive to that file, rebuild iso and write it on DVD - 
> it works fine. Now restoring to full functional Gentoo needs 3 minutes of 
> data decompresion to disk (tar -xjvpf) faster is without verbose mode. Next 
> step is chroot <mount dir> /usr/sbin/lilo (after mounting proc) and reboot 
> ;). This is faster :D
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The rsync backup is just to an external hard drive, and not to a DVD. I'm
going to make an archive (maybe with dar, maybe with tar) to burn to DVD so
that I have something to restore from if everything goes kaput on me.


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