> i'm using an eigerstein beasty on a remote firewall. after a few months > of robust and useful service (thanks charles!) with occasional remote > administration of port forwarding and dns stuff, i'd like to backup the > firewall in order to be able to create a new floppy image in case of > disaster. > > unfortunately, its pretty difficult for me to arrange physical access to > the box. so i'd like to ask, is there any feasible and safe way to make > a backup of the floppy? if i mount the floppy and use scp to suck down > the contents of the root directory, would this produce a suitable image? > > is this likely to cause any grief on the box? are there more sensible > ways (is there an LRP for rsync? would this be worthwhile?).
As Ray pointed, out, using dd to make a disk image in RAM and using scp to make a remote copy is a good way to go. There's also another trick I use a lot, which is to copy individual packges when backing them up. To do this, go through the lrcfg menu system like normal to backup a package. When prompted to verify if there's enough space to actually backup, don't answer yet. At this point, you've got the newly created package ready for backup sitting in /tmp. You can now copy it to a remote host with scp (or whatever). Once you've copied the file, you can continue with the backup if desired by pressing y, or just hit n to quit w/o actually saving. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
