On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a remote Gentoo virtual server and want to implement a better > backup/restore plan. There is no physical access to the server, so any > backup must be done over the Internet. Right now I just create the > occasional tarball and download it, and have used tar+ssh to restore, > but that's not complicated enough. ;) > > The whole data uncompressed is about 5GiB but of course I can exclude > distfiles and save a lot of bytes. I don't need a dd backup of the > whole disk, just backup of its contents (complete system including / > and everything in it) > > I'm curious what you, collective Gentoo-users, may be using to solve > this problem. rsync, rdiff-backup, rsnapshot, dirvish, bacula, > tar+ssh...? > > To me, one of the most important things of any backup solution is the > ease at which data can be restored. In my case, restoration would > probably happen from remotely booting into a recovery liveCD or on a > new Gentoo virtual server image. > > Thanks, > Paul > > tar czf – file| ssh server “cat > file.tar.gz” "-" Standard output (I know a little Englis) -- tlze
