On Saturday 15 November 2008 07:08:42 pm Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote:
> > Mick wrote:
> > > Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my
> > > memory!)
> > >
> > > What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off
> > > line?
> >
> > I keep mine simple, cp -auv paths/you/want/to/backup back/up/to It has
> > works so far. Thought about doing a cron job but that complicates
> > things. :/
>
> Thank you all for the suggestions and for the link to the wiki! I've got
> some reading to do. ;-)
>
> Whenever I have used tar to back up a whole OS I used it with a LiveCD.
> This was to make sure that files and their metadata were not being changed
> while I was tar'ing them.
>
> Are you saying that I can actually fire up tar/rsync and back up in real
> time?
>
> I was gravitating towards using LVM snapshot and then tar'ing that to an
> external USB drive.
If you need to guarantee a backup without the data being changed during the
process... you gotta take the server down. The easiest way is to init 1 to
single user mode , make your backup, then init x back to what ever runlevel
you were in...
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