From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ic199-0006F5-OI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:55:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8UFjsQj016560; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:45:54 GMT Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8UFbetq003788 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:37:41 GMT Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so4341095wah for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:37:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=WNSqn7H7CjujqvK4SIIlW8A+7/n1pz8wIV8WpMzUrG0=; b=Cf3a4dOhScYE8n/CaGHAfbxVqzO3eARJJGvAh0gmep5YQQWc0+FFp1xsIhQC1jvEFRi8xIAuW3hv0h6U5kSAR0Hu+w1OlEpByf9adPFS3r4wbUmZUU2CeAFgPAQcpqfbgYfnKYySzY6lobcy8wXO5m8UQXu16c3noDPQJJTthDQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SjKWzCZqufa3umkGaGok+KsIp8kRcMOlYZUlBkcyI5JhAY3Bl+kKIWE+1VOAWKSFpcvMltuRj2GTZSv4eCq8jDerlg801D+HJNhqUnf2dmiXwKLwjbKbcCjJ/l72WfFN8PQfxnAG70ZltZ86IvryapTz8URHtng0DJAh2P3JP1M= Received: by 10.114.78.1 with SMTP id a1mr2857727wab.1191166659550; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.175.9 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10709300837o46dc930eyf02d9a7b0d624cf7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:37:39 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups In-Reply-To: <642958cc0709292044o17dfe607r75bad07ad91f6e03@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@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: <49bf44f10709291526s46c5c1ebrb34a7171215a3db2@mail.gmail.com> <200709300106.50351.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <49bf44f10709291645q46726263pd77f71f981f73b58@mail.gmail.com> <642958cc0709292044o17dfe607r75bad07ad91f6e03@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c251899e-72dc-4dab-bab4-25014af9a3c0 X-Archives-Hash: df570819412851f5f2a31c46237a52d5 > > > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard > system? > > > > > > > > - Grant > > > > > > /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. > > > > What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done? > > > > - Grant > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > A lot of things you're asking for can be accomplished with a script I've > used (and successfully recovered with) called a stage 4 backup [1]. It's > just your standard bash script that uses tar, gzip, bzip2, etc. to create > manageable backups. I have my server set to backup once a month (I don't > make significant changes to it very often). > > [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Custom_Stage4 That looks pretty slick. That will have to be the next step. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list