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Re: [PLUG] single-user backup suggestions
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On Sun, June 12, 2005 3:19 pm, Chris Duryee said:
> I'm trying to figure out a way to do backups of my hard drive (a PC
> that's only used by myself, running Gentoo) to files which will be
> burned to DVD media. Any suggestions and/or experiences would be
> helpful.
>
> My main goal is to have files created overnight in a directory for me to
> burn at my leisure.
>
> Right now I'm debating between dump and tar. Any suggestions? Most
> information that I find online is for server backups, not for
> single-user machine backups.
>
> I have ~2.5GB of critical files that must be backed up every few nights
> (system and home directory stuff), and ~45GB of media stuff that only
> needs to be backed up incrementally every month, to add new files. My
> system is pretty quiet at night, except for running emerge scripts that
> download things for compilation later in the day (after I can check its
> pretended output for sanity).
>
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I use mondo-archive (sys-apps/mondo-rescue) and it's been working great
for me...
My setup is that I back-up stuff with mondo in .iso format and then rsync
them to a remote server.
At work I use a couple of simple bash scripts that use rsync to back-up
some stuff.
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