Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-08 Thread Brian Wiborg
On 03/06/12 at 11:51AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >What are folks best ideas about how to approach doing something like this? Simple answer: Just use ReaR [1], it is even provided in sunrise [2] Regards, bacce [1] http://rear.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browse

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:52:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> > As an added note on this, rsync's --one-file-system (-x) flag is handy >> > for avoiding grabbing unneeded things, but will typically leave you >> > without the base few device node

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:52:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > As an added note on this, rsync's --one-file-system (-x) flag is handy > > for avoiding grabbing unneeded things, but will typically leave you > > without the base few device nodes needed to boot the backup, those can > > either be grabbed

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 8, 2012 2:50 AM, "Joshua Murphy" wrote: > >8 snip > > As an added note on this, rsync's --one-file-system (-x) flag is handy > for avoiding grabbing unneeded things, but will typically leave you > without the base few device nodes needed to boot the backup, those can > either be grab

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-08 Thread YoYo Siska
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 02:47:08PM -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:55 AM, wrote: > >> Hi, > >>    I'm interested in the idea of cloning a live, complicated hardware > >> system onto a single external hard drive as a simple backup. I would > >> like this external drive to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-07 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:55 AM, wrote: >> Hi, >>    I'm interested in the idea of cloning a live, complicated hardware >> system onto a single external hard drive as a simple backup. I would >> like this external drive to be completely bootable. What's the best >> way to approach doing this? I wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-07 Thread gandalf
> Hi, >I'm interested in the idea of cloning a live, complicated hardware > system onto a single external hard drive as a simple backup. I would > like this external drive to be completely bootable. What's the best > way to approach doing this? I was considering just doing a Gentoo > install fr

[gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm interested in the idea of cloning a live, complicated hardware system onto a single external hard drive as a simple backup. I would like this external drive to be completely bootable. What's the best way to approach doing this? I was considering just doing a Gentoo install from scratch b