Graham Freeman wrote:
> What are the state of backups?

We don't have any.  The situation is that the dedicated server provider 
advertised in-house backup services, and we made our decision to sign up 
with them based on that.  After we had our server mostly configured and 
inquired about the back-up service, they told us they weren't offering 
it at that time.  They continued to keep the advertisement up for months 
during this period.

We tried a rsnapshot-based solution with purely-local back-ups, but 
something about it wasn't able to handle the size of our workload.

I think it probably makes sense now to create an archive of all 
non-restorable disk contents (e.g., /home, parts of /etc and /var) and 
have an admin download it.  Can anyone recommend the best command to use 
to do this?  (The recommendation should include the exact paths that 
should be backed up.)

Luckily, /home *almost* has enough space to hold all current disk 
contents uncompressed, and it will definitely fit with compression.

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