Mick wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote: > >> Mick wrote: >> >>> Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my >>> memory!) >>> >>> What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off >>> line? >>> >> I keep mine simple, cp -auv paths/you/want/to/backup back/up/to It has >> works so far. Thought about doing a cron job but that complicates >> things. :/ >> > > Thank you all for the suggestions and for the link to the wiki! I've got > some > reading to do. ;-) > > Whenever I have used tar to back up a whole OS I used it with a LiveCD. This > was to make sure that files and their metadata were not being changed while I > was tar'ing them. > > Are you saying that I can actually fire up tar/rsync and back up in real time? > > I was gravitating towards using LVM snapshot and then tar'ing that to an > external USB drive. >
I have read that you can use tar while the system is running. I wouldn't do that during say a emerge or something tho. I would try to keep the system somewhat idle as far as changing files. My cp command works fine on a running system with the same advice as above on the system being idle tho. Dale :-) :-)
