Eric Chadbourne wrote:
>
> I've been using Kali Linux Light for my daily driver. Works great. However
> I need to make full disk backups and be able to recover since this is used
> for work. I'm always screwing with it and if it's broken I'm not getting
> paid those hours.
>
> Any recommendations for something to use for a full disk backup and easy
> recovery? My first thought was dd or rsync. However Clonezilla looks pretty
> cool. I remember years back one of their devs being on the BLU email list.
>
Several options.
1. dd
pro: simple, guaranteed to copy all state
con: guaranteed to read and write all state
2. rsync
pro: reasonably simple, restartable, more efficient than dd
con: lots of small files make it slow
3. rsnapshot
pro: reasonably simple, enforces cron usage, built on rsync,
multiple snapshots possible
con: same as rsync, plus multiple snapshots can make things
messy
4. use ZFS
pro: lightweight snapshots, zfssend/zfsrecv
con: not simple to set up
5. buy another machine and stop futzing with your work machine
pro: work machine remains stable, damage from futzing
limited to other machine
con: potentially expensive
I have used all of these techniques.
-dsr-
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