[plug] backups

[Peter F Bradshaw]

Hi Bill;

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, W.Kenworthy wrote:

> Whats a good way to do a whole disk backup ready for a partial restore
> (hunt and pick).  My thoughts are to scp / down a pipe into a tar.bz2 on
> a server with room.  Or alternatively, dd it into a compressed loop
> mounted file (how to create such a beast?).  This might be more
> convenient.

For my regular backups I run a script which uses constructs like:

tar -cvpf - -X backup.exclude / | nice bzip2 -cv | ssh backup-machine " cat > full-system.backup.tar.bz2"

This script runs in a "signed enviroment" (see ssh-agent, ssh-add) but
that's not necessary if you do not mind typing the pass phase every time
ssh is run.

>
> My laptop is dying looks like being replaced, and rather than the
> config/work area backups I am running with on a day to day basis, I am
> looking to do a full one 'just in case' I have missed something
> important.
>
> BillK
>

Cheers

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