> On Aug 17, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > Eric Chadbourne wrote: >> >> I've been using Kali Linux Light for my daily driver. Works great. However >> I need to make full disk backups and be able to recover since this is used >> for work. I'm always screwing with it and if it's broken I'm not getting >> paid those hours. >> >> Any recommendations for something to use for a full disk backup and easy >> recovery? My first thought was dd or rsync. However Clonezilla looks >> pretty cool. I remember years back one of their devs being on the BLU email >> list. >> > > Several options. > > 1. dd > pro: simple, guaranteed to copy all state > con: guaranteed to read and write all state > > 2. rsync > pro: reasonably simple, restartable, more efficient than dd > con: lots of small files make it slow > > 3. rsnapshot > pro: reasonably simple, enforces cron usage, built on rsync, > multiple snapshots possible > con: same as rsync, plus multiple snapshots can make things > messy > > 4. use ZFS > pro: lightweight snapshots, zfssend/zfsrecv > con: not simple to set up > > 5. buy another machine and stop futzing with your work machine > pro: work machine remains stable, damage from futzing > limited to other machine > con: potentially expensive > > I have used all of these techniques. > > -dsr-
Nice overview. Thanks DSR. I can't afford #5 right now. New apartment, bills, etc. Well after what you and Kent said I'm going to try rsync right now with USB 3 external drive. See how long it takes and if I can boot from it. Great suggestions! Eric Chadbourne https://never.blue/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
