On 10/09/2014 06:32, Joseph wrote:
On 09/10/14 06:10, Kerin Millar wrote:
Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer on
how to backup a system.
I just had a HD crash so I selected a replacement SSD and I'm re
installing the software.
I had backup of /etc/ and /home
On 10/09/2014 10:03, Dale wrote:
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 02:47:26 AM Dale wrote:
>>
>> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>> > > On 10/09/2014 07:32, Joseph wrote:
>>
>> > >> Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good
>> pointer on
>>
>> > >> how
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:14:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer
> > on how to backup a system.
>
> Did it even occur to you at all to type that exact question into a
> search engine and see what comes back?
And if you then need
J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 02:47:26 AM Dale wrote:
>
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > > On 10/09/2014 07:32, Joseph wrote:
>
> > >> Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good
> pointer on
>
> > >> how to backup a system.
>
> > >
>
> > > Did it even
On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 02:47:26 AM Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On 10/09/2014 07:32, Joseph wrote:
> >> Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer
on
> >> how to backup a system.
> >
> > Did it even occur to you at all to type that exact question int
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 10/09/2014 07:32, Joseph wrote:
>> Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer on
>> how to backup a system.
>
> Did it even occur to you at all to type that exact question into a
> search engine and see what comes back?
>
> Come on dude, we aren't
On 10/09/2014 07:32, Joseph wrote:
> Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer on
> how to backup a system.
Did it even occur to you at all to type that exact question into a
search engine and see what comes back?
Come on dude, we aren't here to do ALL your thinking fo
On 09/10/14 06:10, Kerin Millar wrote:
[snip]
I just extracted the files with "tar..."
I read your forum post and can see that you're (dangerously) extracting
directly into the root directory and that this is among the contents of
the archive:
./usr/lib/
./usr/lib/libbrcomplpr2.so
I po
On 28/05/2014 13:42, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
>>> Currently, I do the following:
>>> > > Every year, a full backup
>>> > > Then, every month, I have an incremental based on either the yearly or
>>> > > previous monthly.
>>> > > Ditto for the weekly (but then based on monthly or weekly)
>>> > > And ag
On Wednesday 28 May 2014 13:07:49 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 28/05/2014 11:58, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 May 2014 23:35:26 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> On 27/05/2014 17:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> >>> I have a yearly (full), monthly, weekly and daily. Each incremental is
> >>> against the
On 28/05/2014 11:58, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2014 23:35:26 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 27/05/2014 17:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>> I have a yearly (full), monthly, weekly and daily. Each incremental is
>>> against the most recent one of itself or longer period.
>>> That means having
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> "app-backup/dar" uses catalogues for the incrementals. I think I will stick to
> that for the foreseeable future.
>
I used to use that and sarab (which is a wrapper). I moved on to
duplicity. The problem with dar is that it uses quite a
On Tuesday 27 May 2014 11:28:17 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:12 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:31:26 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
> >> btrfs wouldn't have any issues with this at all. You'd have an
> >> advantage in that you wouldn't have to unmount the file
On Wed, 28 May 2014 12:03 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> Always important. I just saw the other email which states that the
> latest sysresccd supports it. That is fine for me.
Sysresccd has supported btrfs for some time. I realise my mail could have
been read otherwise, but the reason for keepi
On Tuesday 27 May 2014 11:32:22 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:21 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > Does anyone know how these will handle (and perform) with a possible 300+
> > snapshots per filesystem (or volume, as I think it's called)?
>
> I can't speak for zfs. I had upwards of
On Tuesday 27 May 2014 23:35:26 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 27/05/2014 17:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > I have a yearly (full), monthly, weekly and daily. Each incremental is
> > against the most recent one of itself or longer period.
> > That means having to keep multiple snapshots active, which I pre
On 27/05/2014 17:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> I have a yearly (full), monthly, weekly and daily. Each incremental is
> against
> the most recent one of itself or longer period.
> That means having to keep multiple snapshots active, which I prefer to avoid.
>
> But, it is a good idea for backing up
On Tue, 27 May 2014 11:32:22 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Oh, one other tip if you use btrfs - be sure you have a rescue disk
> that supports it. Hint, the old Gentoo install CD I had lying around
> didn't. You'll probably want to keep a rescue CD with a recent kernel
> and btrfs-tools handy at
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:21 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> Does anyone know how these will handle (and perform) with a possible 300+
> snapshots per filesystem (or volume, as I think it's called)?
I can't speak for zfs. I had upwards of 1000 snapshots on my system
before I stopped creating them hou
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:12 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:31:26 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
>> btrfs wouldn't have any issues with this at all. You'd have an
>> advantage in that you wouldn't have to unmount the filesystem to
>> cleanly create the snapshot (which you have to
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 05:12:50 PM J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:31:26 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
> > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Forgot to add:
For fileservers, I am starting to feel that ZFS or BTRFS snapshots are easier
to work with as it makes r
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:31:26 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > I am still happily using LVM with snapshots. Those are instantaneous as
> > well and I can then backup the snapshot, which on my server takes between
> > 2 hours (incremental) and 3
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:44:31 +0200
Alex Schuster wrote:
> Peter Humphrey writes:
>
> > On Monday 12 April 2010 17:17:52 Florian Philipp wrote:
> > > Unless something is broken, I hardly ever reboot.
> >
> > How do you take backups?
>
> I do my backups from the running system, not from a live-cd
Well, now that I've got my systems cleaned up, and KDE3 removed, I'm tackling
another project I've been meaning to do - backups.
Here's my basic plan:
- I've got a directory on my server that I want to synchronize several systems
with (some linux, and one Windows).
- I want clients to push the b
On Sunday 30 September 2007 01:45:41 Grant wrote:
> > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
> > >
> > > - Grant
> >
> > /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
>
> What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done?
>
> - Gr
Hi Grant,
on Saturday, 2007-09-29 at 16:28:36, you wrote:
> Do you back up hidden files and directories in the home directory?
> There seems to be a lot of junk in there. Does something like
> '--exclude "/home/user/.*"' work with tar?
It certainly does, but I'm quite sure it's not what you want.
Dan Farrell wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:07 -0700
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
system?
- Grant
Don't forget to back up stuff that can help you rebuild the system
quickly. Like /proc/config.gz, or better yet just
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:07 -0700
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
> system?
>
> - Grant
Don't forget to back up stuff that can help you rebuild the system
quickly. Like /proc/config.gz, or better yet just the kernel and
modules
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:15:04 +0100
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Grant,
>
> > For now I think I'll do /etc, /root, /home, /var/lib/portage/world,
> > /usr/src/linux/.config, and anything specific I might need in
> > /usr/local. What else am I missing out on in /var?
>
> Othe
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:35:42 -0400
Kenneth Prugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:28:36 -0700
> Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does something like
> > '--exclude "/home/user/.*"' work with tar?
> >
> > - Grant
>
> Yes you may exclude files from being included. From the t
Hello Jerry McBride,
> > Why not just backup the world list itself, /var/lib/portage/world?
> > Your method doesn't distinguish between packages in world and their
> > dependencies, emerging from this would result in a screwed world file.
> It doesn't have too. The files I listed plus a backup of
On Sunday 30 September 2007 06:02:30 pm Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Hello Jerry McBride,
>
> > Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a
> > duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build
> > process I run this script via cron...
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > rm /p
Hello Jerry McBride,
> Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a
> duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build
> process I run this script via cron...
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> rm /portage.list/*.*
>
> emerge -pe --color=n system > /portage.list/system.list
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Other data in /var/lib. For example, any databases kept in /var/lib/mysql.
Rather than backup MySQL's or Postgres' binary storage I prefer to use the
relevant tool (mysqldump, pgdump[all]) to backup the database
to /root/backups/ just prior to
On Sunday 30 September 2007 12:31:51 pm Grant wrote:
> > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
snip...
Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a duplicate of
an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build process I run this
script
Hello Grant,
> For now I think I'll do /etc, /root, /home, /var/lib/portage/world,
> /usr/src/linux/.config, and anything specific I might need in
> /usr/local. What else am I missing out on in /var?
Other data in /var/lib. For example, any databases kept in /var/lib/mysql.
--
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Hello Grant,
> /boot/grub/grub.conf too. Does anyone leave /boot mounted all the time?
Yes, mounted read-only. It avoids accidentally copying a new kernel
to /boot without mounting it. that's on the machines that have a
separate /boot, something I no longer bother with.
--
Neil Bothwick
Cros
Hello Grant,
> Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the
> same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me.
> Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something?
I use rsync.net, offsite backups using duplicity for GPG encryption.
--
Neil
> > > I keep them on an USB-stick (udf filesystem, with the same settings
> > > like a CD-RW).
> >
> > But where do you put the USB stick? If my apartment building burns
> > to the ground while I'm away, I'll lose my systems and the backups.
>
> I can't believe you actually asked that. Think, man,
> > Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the
> > same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me.
> > Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something?
> >
> > - Grant
>
> Offsite backups are a good idea if your data is important to you. I
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Grant wrote:
> > I keep them on an USB-stick (udf filesystem, with the same settings
> > like a CD-RW).
>
> But where do you put the USB stick? If my apartment building burns
> to the ground while I'm away, I'll lose my systems and the backups.
I can't believe you ac
On 30 Sep 2007, at 12:33, Grant wrote:
Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the
same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me.
Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something?
- Grant
Offsite backups are a good idea if your data is
> Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
> >>> In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
> >>> from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
> >>>
> >>> /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
> >>
Grant schrieb:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
/var contains
> > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
> >
> > In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
> > from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
> >
> > /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
> >
> >
>
Grant wrote:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
>>> In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
>>> from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
>>>
>>> /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /s
> > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
> >
> > In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
> > from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
> >
> > /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
> >
> >
>
> > > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
> system?
> > > >
> > > > - Grant
> > >
> > > /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
> >
> > What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done?
> >
> > - Grant
> > --
> > [EMAIL PROTECTE
> > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
>
> In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
> from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
>
> /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
>
>
> /var contains t
Steen Eugen Poulsen schrieb:
Grant skrev:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /s
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote:
> > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
> > system?
> >
> > - Grant
>
> /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
/usr/local too, otherwise you get to
On 9/29/07, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
> system?
> > >
> > > - Grant
> >
> > /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
>
> What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done?
>
> - Gra
Grant skrev:
> Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
/var contains th
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:28:36 -0700
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does something like
> '--exclude "/home/user/.*"' work with tar?
>
> - Grant
Yes you may exclude files from being included. From the tar man page:
--exclude PATTERN exclude files based upon PATTERN
-X, --exclude-from FI
On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote:
> > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
> > >
> > > - Grant
> >
> > /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
>
> What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done?
>
> - Grant
m
On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote:
> > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
> > >
> > > - Grant
> >
> > /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
>
> Do you back up hidden files and directories in the home directory?
yes, they contain s
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 15:26 -0700, Grant wrote:
> Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
> system?
I pretty much back up everything that's not ubiquitous on the Internet
on a on an external drive. Disk space is so cheap these days so I figure
why not.
--
Albert W. Hopkin
> > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
> >
> > - Grant
>
> /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done?
- Grant
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> > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
> >
> > - Grant
>
> /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
Do you back up hidden files and directories in the home directory?
There seems to be a lot of junk in there. Does something like
'--exclude "/ho
On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote:
> Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
>
> - Grant
/var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
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Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
- Grant
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:04:26 +0100, Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
> 3. My home directory; subversion repositories and DBMS catalogues are
> backed-up to a remote account. I currently do this with a cron-job
> which takes dumps; creates tar files; AES encrypts then uploads using
> SSH to the remote site.
I've recently been thinking about backup strategy... following a painful
re-install after dropping a clanger during a kernel upgrade. While this
seems a very basic topic, I can find surprisingly little documentation
about this on-line.
I need to address several entirely different kinds of backup:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:26:56 -, Michael Kintzios wrote:
> If you get a minute, a detailed wiki howto would be useful for some of
> us. :-)
A minute, where can I get one of those? Is it in portage? :-(
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Eagles may soar, but Wombles don't get sucked into jet engines
signa
> -Original Message-
> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 15 December 2005 19:16
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:53:27 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
>
> > My per
thanks.
On 12/16/05, Paweł Madej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> > Thanks all for the answers until now;
> >
> > What i am looking for is to backup 3 servers, and a critical issue
> > workstation.
> >
> I think that you should test Bacula. that is very scalable app to b
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
Thanks all for the answers until now;
What i am looking for is to backup 3 servers, and a critical issue workstation.
I think that you should test Bacula. that is very scalable app to backup
from different sources to different media.
http://www.bacula.org
Greets
P
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:40:32 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> how can one create bootable CDs/DVDs? Is there a simple way to transfer
> GRUB into the DVD/CDs? Or would "dd" of the /boot partition transfer the
> whole thing??
I created a rescue system, containing all the tools I need by following
this
On 16 December 2005 08:11, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:02 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> > On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4
> > -boot-info-table
>
> Thanks. Wonderful info.
The grub info pag
On 12/15/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> bootable, but mkisofs. To use GRUB, you have to make a /boot/grub
> directory in your CD tree, and copy the stage2_eltorito file into that
> directory along with grub.conf/menu.lst.
Oh, I forgot one thing. Instead of (hdX,X) in grub.conf, yo
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:02 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table
Thanks. Wonderful info.
/me just bought a DVD writer.
--
Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz
On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> > the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup
> > directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready for writing
> > to bootable DVDs. It makes rest
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup
> directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready for writing
> to bootable DVDs. It makes restoring individual files very easy, and a
> completely hosed sy
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:04:38 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> > completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable.
>
> So are my USB hard disks. Nothing against DVD backups though...I just
> find them too slow and small for my needs...
A fair point, although it does make keeping sp
Thanks all for the answers until now;
What i am looking for is to backup 3 servers, and a critical issue workstation.
I have a storage working with samba, so my bakups will go to this
samba server. I would like to make some diff bakups to save storage
space
:)
thanks again all of you
On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable.
So are my USB hard disks. Nothing against DVD backups though...I just
find them too slow and small for my needs...
-Richard
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:53:27 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big
> USB hard drivesbut that's what works well for me.
I use rdiff-backup, which is ideal for backing up automatically to a
hard drive. I run it from cron, hourly on c
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:53:27AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
>
> My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big
> USB hard drivesbut that's what works well for me.
>
ditto - very easy, very efficient
John
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On 12/15/05, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux
> boxes ?
If you can give us some more details about what you are looking for
(number of boxes, backup device you want to use, whether you want
simple backup or a
o-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Backups
>
> Good day Gentoo List !!!
>
> Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux
> boxes ?
>
> thanks, Allan
>
> --
> An application asked:
> "Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or bett
Good day Gentoo List !!!
Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux boxes ?
thanks, Allan
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