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 1L2qe8-00023M-V9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:15:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70B76E0288; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D53E0288 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37ED16430D for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:15:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.507 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.507 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.092, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Qas2ja5MyGvx for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:15:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911F364395 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L2qdv-0000iS-QC for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:15:07 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:15:07 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:15:07 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Back up a server in real-time Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:15:01 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87skpnk57u.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <200811151945.23398.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20081119165938.GB18171@pentlands.xeriom.net> 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=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kh2/tAnrR8HViG9riR/8/Z/k67o= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 1383b445-76c3-4c1c-99cb-7f04c9191b7a X-Archives-Hash: 8aaaf1dfa2d8cfe1eae2c58aaea0f60e Mark Somerville writes: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:45:04PM +0000, 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 like rdiff-backup, which gives incremental backups over rsync. I just started playing with rdiff-backup. If you are familiar with rsnapshot maybe you'll know if rdiff-backup is better in some way. I've been using rsnapshot for quite a while but haven't had to do a serious restore (knock on wood). The small scale restores I've needed seemed to be something of a pita. I guess you have to search the rsnapshot created hardlinks for the version you want manually. At least that is what I ended up doing. There may be better ways but rsnapshot doesn't supply any help in that regard far as I know. Other than the biggest part of having created the file you need that is.