On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Mark Somerville wrote: > I've got an 8Gb Gentoo virtual machine that I'm working out a backup > plan for. Since the disk space is pretty small, I'm thinking about > just taking a full image of the disk for backups, rather than > cherry-picking DBs, mail, etc. > > I'd like to take a full image every day (but only transfer the > differences), which I'll store for a week. Does this sound like a > reasonable enough approach? > > My initial thoughts were just to use rsync to grab everything. Would > this be appropriate for this kind of backup? Is there a better tool > to get the job done? > > Any suggestions appreciated, > > Mark
(Supposing both boxes are Linux ones) Sometime I use app-backup/rdiff-backup, it's quite easy and effective. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.20-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Fri Apr 20 17:31:11 CEST 2007 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2003.99 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list