[plug] backups

[meyerri]

---- Original Message ----
From: billk at iinet.net.au
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] backups
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:36:27 +0800

>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.
>
>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.

I use rsync for my daily backups from one server to another - using
ssh as the protocol. The nice thing about rsync is that if you have
some data already downloaded, it won't download it again - but that's
not necessarily so in your case.
>
>BillK
>
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