From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1lAY-0002zU-R7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:12:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 014FBE0323; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:12:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA19CE0323 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so1193350nfi.26 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:12:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=2aM5N6wZPKPdcpBA+nAc1rWyNoz0RSZW5LhR+jIT/0g=; b=kY/ViICn73q4spIU3HsNYJAQka7tEv9yYAHHc+L8+TYRxXgWdPViTf6mWh63LCWp6y BG2LdmK2lVldCkbrzjQGd0kaG0xgIhCR98wIpg/rMEJUwHw2689jpzF3kUhpEUVqEyfH NLfbKfJmTTppkByi+eAjR9jGjWSvGl3LwcAbs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Se2cmITWG0CC0dqmip4x4zLs8/osBnjAAkf9pRohpP1t+Kp7fmMsojrleyj8xRKJW5 ijTdC91A7EEGlzQe8SbB81jQl8tIGsB0qdjueW8oRgx6tFjqhySxeuUXiIa3VJX7v0II KVUq3GLNQqIRJATVzU0aWOs+D4dpykBth1ffg= Received: by 10.210.128.5 with SMTP id a5mr3145017ebd.119.1226855536637; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:12:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.37.7 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:12:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38af3d670811160912j21dd1cb0vd4ccf13de795efed@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:12:16 -0200 From: "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" Sender: jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time In-Reply-To: <200811160008.58417.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200811151945.23398.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <491F332F.7040902@gmail.com> <200811160008.58417.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 20834466606b9c24 X-Archives-Salt: 62f4b4ae-329e-4c41-9dc5-c1d5ea157ed4 X-Archives-Hash: 114c1cbbd495f63bc2a0da0fe52647be On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Mick wrote: > 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? > Please read tar's texinfo manual, at least the section 5 Performing Backups and Restoring Files It is short, and nicely divided in subsections making it is easy to select you need/want to read. Not like a man page, which for me is useful as a reference but horrible at teaching how to use the program (unless the program is quite simple). -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds