From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HgQPe-0004XB-8O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:10:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3OJ9fcE011507; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:09:41 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3OJ5JZf006824 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:05:19 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so236304ugc for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:05:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.205.7 with SMTP id c7mr1563646hug.1177441518062; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:05:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.146.10 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:05:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:05:18 +0000 From: "Vladimir Rusinov" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up my box In-Reply-To: <20070424100327.GA2879@pentlands.xeriom.net> 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_82256_27800959.1177441518017" References: <20070424100327.GA2879@pentlands.xeriom.net> X-Archives-Salt: 95559144-90ba-419a-90c4-b46806c623c8 X-Archives-Hash: 41f4d305381f992525a54aaa4b3c868f ------=_Part_82256_27800959.1177441518017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 4/24/07, Mark Somerville wrote: > > I've got an 8Gb Gentoo virtual machine that I'm working out a backup > plan for. Since the disk space is pretty small, I'm thinking about just > taking a full image of the disk for backups, rather than cherry-picking > DBs, mail, etc. > > I'd like to take a full image every day (but only transfer the > differences), which I'll store for a week. Does this sound like a > reasonable enough approach? > > Any suggestions appreciated, > Try flexbackup. -- Vladimir Rusinov GreenMice Solutions: opensource IT solutions http://greenmice.info/ ------=_Part_82256_27800959.1177441518017 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

On 4/24/07, Mark Somerville <mark@scottishclimbs.com> wrote:
I've got an 8Gb Gentoo virtual machine that I'm working out a backup
plan for. Since the disk space is pretty small, I'm thinking about just
taking a full image of the disk for backups, rather than cherry-picking
DBs, mail, etc.

I'd like to take a full image every day (but only transfer the
differences), which I'll store for a week. Does this sound like a
reasonable enough approach?

Any suggestions appreciated,

Try flexbackup.

--
Vladimir Rusinov
GreenMice Solutions: opensource IT solutions
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