Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-08 Thread András Csányi
2008/5/6 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > >I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not > interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root > filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and > rsync to keep it updated

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Steven Lembark
>> If you're using 'dd' does that mean you're copying the entire filesystem >> and not just the files? I believe that can run you into some issues if the >> FS isn't read-only... > > What kind of issues? The idea is to copy the whole filesystem to another disk > and keep it sync. And in case of "

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, David wrote: > On Tuesday 06 May 2008 23:54:08 Andrew MacKenzie wrote: > > +++ David [gentoo-user] [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:44:46PM +0200]: > > > Hi, > > > > > >I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm > > > not interested in incremental bac

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ David [gentoo-user] [Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:18:58AM +0200]: > What kind of issues? The idea is to copy the whole filesystem to another disk > and keep it sync. And in case of "crisis" use dd from the backup to the > original disk. I should note I'm assuming you're backing up a mounted files

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ David [gentoo-user] [Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:18:58AM +0200]: > On Tuesday 06 May 2008 23:54:08 Andrew MacKenzie wrote: > > If you're using 'dd' does that mean you're copying the entire filesystem > > and not just the files? I believe that can run you into some issues if the > > FS isn't read-o

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread David
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 23:54:08 Andrew MacKenzie wrote: > +++ David [gentoo-user] [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:44:46PM +0200]: > > Hi, > > > >I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm > > not interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root > > filesyste

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 6. Mai 2008, David wrote: > Hi, > >I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not > interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root > filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and > rsync to keep it updated. H

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:44 PM, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not > interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root > filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and >

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ David [gentoo-user] [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:44:46PM +0200]: > > Hi, > >I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not > interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root > filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and

[gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread David
Hi, I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and rsync to keep it updated. How do you make your backups? Any improvements?.