Hi! On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:17:35PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: >On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Nick Holland wrote: >>Really. /altroot is useful for certain things, but ONLY certain >>things. Don't call it a backup, as it isn't rotated. You have
>I do backup everything. >It's just that altroot is so easy to get a file you erased by mistake. >rm /etc/myfile... err fuck... mount /altroot && cp blah... well you see >;) >It is good for my lazyness but I'm definitaly not using this for >backup ;) rsnapshot (or similar programs) to a separate dir/fs from cron does the same, and can keep several "generations" in a relatively efficient way, w/o filesystem consistency problems. Kind regards, Hannah.
