> I'm curious what you, collective Gentoo-users, may be using to solve
> this problem. rsync, rdiff-backup, rsnapshot, dirvish, bacula,
> tar+ssh...?
rsync -av --delete --delete-excluded \
--exclude=/dev/ \
--exclude=/proc/ \
--exclude=/sys/ \
--exclude=/tmp/ \
--exclude=/usr/portage/ \
--exclude=/var/portage/ \
--exclude=/var/run/ \
--exclude=/var/tmp/ \
/ b...@backupserver.foo.bar:/mnt/backup/machine1/
I exclude the portage tree, no reason to bak it up. emerge --sync and
you're done.
To restore I just boot into the rescue system of my server hoster and do a
rsync -av --delete --delete-excluded \
b...@backupserver.foo.bar:/mnt/backup/machine1/ /
