On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote: > 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 keep mine simple, cp -auv paths/you/want/to/backup back/up/to It has > works so far. Thought about doing a cron job but that complicates > things. :/
Thank you all for the suggestions and for the link to the wiki! I've got some reading to do. ;-) Whenever I have used tar to back up a whole OS I used it with a LiveCD. This was to make sure that files and their metadata were not being changed while I was tar'ing them. Are you saying that I can actually fire up tar/rsync and back up in real time? I was gravitating towards using LVM snapshot and then tar'ing that to an external USB drive. -- Regards, Mick
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