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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:56:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811302256.18240.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492196d7.eOsTwjkDIuUx8Zsg%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>

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On Monday 17 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > dirvish is in portage.
> >
> > tar/rsync/cp are not really backups but manual copies.  If you want true
> > backup you need scripts to handle the extra functionality for things
> > like versioning, archive management and the all important restore.
>
> star has everything you need for backups and it is based on the standard
> archive format.

Thanks Joerg, I have just had a quick look at star.  Would you know if there 
is a LiveCD that has star - or will I be able to restore a fs from an archive 
created with star, but using tar to do it as it comes in e.g. Knoppix?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-30 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-15 19:45 [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time Mick
2008-11-15 20:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-15 20:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-15 20:29 ` Jerry McBride
2008-11-15 20:38 ` Dale
2008-11-16  0:08   ` Mick
2008-11-16  0:42     ` Dale
2008-11-16  2:58     ` Jerry McBride
2008-11-16  9:54     ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 11:51       ` Mick
2008-11-16 13:08         ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 17:12     ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-11-16  5:16 ` jaeyoung lee
2008-11-16  9:04 ` William Kenworthy
2008-11-16  9:36   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-16  9:58   ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 10:31     ` William Kenworthy
2008-11-16 10:39       ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 12:36         ` William Kenworthy
2008-11-16 13:15           ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-17 16:07   ` Joerg Schilling
2008-11-30 22:56     ` Mick [this message]
2008-11-30 23:04       ` Joerg Schilling
2008-11-16 10:35 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-11-19 16:59 ` Mark Somerville
2008-11-19 17:15   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2008-11-20  7:15     ` Dirk Heinrichs

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