On Monday 14 January 2019 08:56:40 Dave Cole wrote: > Get a copy of Clonezilla and put it on a stick drive and make it > bootable. https://clonezilla.org/ > It does an effective job of backing up and restoring entire Linux > disks without pain via a graphical interface. > It can also do baremetal restores as well. > > I use a little USB plug in Hard drive along with a USB stick with > Clonezilla to backup my Linux server. It has saved me a few times now > after a few bad installs, and when my server was hacked - twice in > one year. Mmm, that says you are running a stock router if any at all. I've not been bothered by hackers since I'm running dd-wrt on my router.
> Highly recommended. The small USB hard drive and stick > are stored in a steel cabinet and are never left plugged in - in case > of a lightning strike. Just a usbkey would hold a copy of the config dir I am working in, several copies in fact. Everytime something works (for my definition of works, making a config dir backup to a time stamped copy on different media sounds like a good idea. > After I make any sizeable changes, I do a backup and give the backup > file an approprate name and timestamp. That makes fallbacks a lot > easier. Something I don't do and since I'm grounded from any great amount of driving for another 2-3 weeks, it will be a while before I can collect some usb keys. But it sounds like an economical way to get just in case instant recoveries. I'm about 70% recovered now, just the tally led restoration and a session of copy/paste should complete it sometime in the next days. Thanks Dave [...] Cheers, Gene Heskett -- _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
