Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my
> > memory!)
> >
> > What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off
> > line?
>
> I keep mine simple, cp -auv paths/you/want/to/backup back/up/to  It has
> works so far.  Thought about doing a cron job but that complicates
> things.  :/

Thank you all for the suggestions and for the link to the wiki!  I've got some 
reading to do.  ;-)

Whenever I have used tar to back up a whole OS I used it with a LiveCD.  This 
was to make sure that files and their metadata were not being changed while I 
was tar'ing them.

Are you saying that I can actually fire up tar/rsync and back up in real time?

I was gravitating towards using LVM snapshot and then tar'ing that to an 
external USB drive.
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Regards,
Mick

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