From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LhiJd-000602-P1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:39:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2BFEE034B; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:39:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.146]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57199E034B for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:39:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 13so21107eye.10 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:39:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Lx9k5ZX7zYBUQ1yPu7agDVoPh6gYPYsC/wAO/+fKjgM=; b=jX+dJNLznTF7+1B+AEengtXWvJ0rQDttI8XNYSBEM6vNQnToVOYpWxrWk2Cidh+MSg 3X+RGlfDpl8Q2y4abgwzBC55laRVuokfeiezo4RIyI4g4evYUEKutjZiaf7ALcDIcUSW qs5JEl1AXOHT5zhXGEwRkO7Lmde7j1fb2R4n4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=b+kXfT1bAuatrUSHQ5BM7kvyz68CrPZZo8JvaaIiZBubmH8iD9eVCZ1eoQy+aSjKOX LIsY3HQOQQ5nHzuxm7jxnovLah7n7/2Vv2V0iZZlli+MXVUVv2S0tBzGtWjHQFgc5r6+ VwRPK0jsOFfH9cJqQ8aCG6KwwTRFKI9Wy1z1s= 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 Received: by 10.210.16.10 with SMTP id 10mr5228894ebp.66.1236854341995; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:39:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4e97d4190903081153v392acaf3m3d24c92734ac08a0@mail.gmail.com> References: <49B03C4F.1050701@gmail.com> <4e97d4190903070629w5e7583b8rf3af26dd76eb42a0@mail.gmail.com> <49B2A31A.5090700@gmail.com> <200903082110.06878.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> <49B3DAA4.5080909@gmail.com> <4e97d4190903081153v392acaf3m3d24c92734ac08a0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:39:01 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations? From: Geralt To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7eae4a26-63bb-415a-af67-bd7282b1ac7a X-Archives-Hash: 91ec8bc722598d228ee1d88cde3530a6 Hi, I'm using Clonezilla for my system backups, it's very easy to use and restoring the backups actually works (that's normally the tricky part, not copying everything to another medium) :-) If it's just for data, I'm making a daily backup on a flash disk using rsync and from time to time a backup on an external hdd drive using again rsync. If you tar it up, you can't store the differences only anymore, so you have to decide first what you want. Oh and if you're using a ram-dvd you can access the dvd as if it were a flash medium and just rsync/tar/... to it :-) Geralt.