> You did not tell us what are you trying to backup; entire system or just > particular files.
Right now I'm working on particular files and folders but it sounds nice to eventually back up each system in its entirety. That does sounds like a lot of data to move offsite though. > Are you afraid of updates or data loss? I'm mainly thinking about data loss and break-ins. With updates I find that the problematic package is usually fairly obvious and Gentoo makes it easy to roll back, especially with FEATURES="buildpkg". > I have two machine in remote location as well. So I usually upgrade my > local machine first, wait one week and if there are no surprises I upgrade > remote main server first. If everything goes OK (no surprises and/or > complains), I upgrade remote backup machine. > I run "vpn" so I just use rsync over vpn to make an incremental backup daily > (Mon. to Fri.). That's the same sort of backup process I'm working on. I have a similar staggered update strategy as well. It came in handy with the udev network device name change recently. - Grant
