On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> Hello people.
>
> I need to back up my Debian server, which mainly acts as a gateway
> (iptables) and proxy (squid). I’d like to back it up in a way that should
> enable me to recover the whole system onto a new harddisk drive, if the
>
On 9/29/10 1:15 AM, Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> Hello!
> I know we're about to go a bit OT, but could you please tell me how you
> eventually would recover to the last running configuration of y Debian server
> by
> recovering also the installed packages?
> I am now thinking about backing up my /etc
I have a pre-backup script that runs
dpkg --get-selections > .pkglist
I make sure that this file is backed up. (the script actually gathers the
package list plus captures the drive and partition information.) In the
event of a rebuild or a cloning of a system, I can build the base system
(I'm als
Hi,
I use backuppc for this purpose too, and I'm quite happy with it.
Some time ago i wrote about this and how to do the restore
http://www.linux-geex.com/?s=backuppc&x=0&y=0#/?p=163
Hope it helps
Cheers
Pedro
On Tuesday 28 September 2010 19:54:41 Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> Hello people.
>
> I
I've done backups of complete systems with BackupPC and bare-metal recovery
from those backups several times. The only problems you're likely to run
into are backing up databases.
As Les said, it is in principle no different from cloning the machine using
tar.
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"rsync --fuzzy" seems to break BackupPC; fileListReceived breaks.
Could that be fixed easily?
-Robin
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Robin writes:
> "rsync --fuzzy" seems to break BackupPC; fileListReceived breaks.
> Could that be fixed easily?
Sorry, but no. In 4.x I hope to implement solution that will
be better than even --fuzzy, although it might not be included
in the initial release. Since 4.x uses (almost) native rsyn
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 03:47:25PM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote:
> Robin writes:
>
> > "rsync --fuzzy" seems to break BackupPC; fileListReceived
> > breaks. Could that be fixed easily?
>
> Sorry, but no. In 4.x I hope to implement solution that will be
> better than even --fuzzy, although it might
