On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 21:09 -0500, B. Alexander wrote: > I have also found that a clean install of Debian plus an apt-get > dselect-upgrade (I capture the package lists daily) takes about the > same amount of time as a full restore.
Fair enough. I go the other way - backing up /usr/bin doesn't matter much with disk pooling, and my restore method is to boot a live CD, mount --rbind dev, proc, and sys into /mnt, and then restore over that. Then chroot into it, install grub again, and reboot. Installing over a base OS install works too, but it has one weakness: files that exist as part of the base install, but which don't exist in the backup, are retained. It also depends on the base OS installer (and any web dependencies) working, which may not be the case if you are running a dangerously old distro for some reason. > Yeah, I have sudoers cranked down so the backuppc user can only do > rsync, tar, and other things associated with the backup. Having a > single user account that has root access to everything, especially an > unattended one, causes those hairs on the back of my neck to rise. :) Another option, or to add to what you've got anyway, is to restrict key login by IP: http://www.tolaris.com/2009/09/05/using-ssh-agent-and-setting-key-access-limits/ My backuppc keys can login as root, but only from the expected IPs. Sorry I haven't been able to find your problem. Perhaps use lsof and top to see what rsync is reading during the backup? Regards, Tyler -- "The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all." -- Anne Smedley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
