Re: quick and dirty backup
On 02/20/2012 05:40 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> My Debian machines have almost no data, just packages and config
files. Just before a major upgrade, and a few othe times, I'd like to
have a quick and dirty backup of most files including logfiles, run
files like dhcp.leases etc. So what I do is a simple:
> tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --exclude /mnt
--exclude /proc --exclude /sys
Given the above tarball and a blank hard drive, have you created a
functionally-equivalent system to what you started with? E.g. have you
validated your recovery process?
My approach is to put the O/S, applications, configuration files, etc.,
on one hard drive (system drive), put pictures, music, video, etc., on a
second drive (data drive), use Norton Ghost 2003 to take/ restore images
of the system drive as desired (after a fresh installation, prior to
upgrades, etc.), and Perl-driven tar/ gzip/ rsync to do daily backups of
/home, data, etc.. I assume FOSS tools may be used instead of Ghost
2003, but if it ain't broke...
"Backup & Recovery Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems" is a
worthwhile purchase and read:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596102463.do
HTH,
David
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