On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? >
Please read tar's texinfo manual, at least the section 5 Performing Backups and Restoring Files It is short, and nicely divided in subsections making it is easy to select you need/want to read. Not like a man page, which for me is useful as a reference but horrible at teaching how to use the program (unless the program is quite simple). -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds
