: B. Alexander [mailto:stor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:18 AM
To: General list for user discussion,questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up whole linux system
Hi Flavio,
If I am honest
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Boniforti Flavio fla...@piramide.chwrote:
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
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
.
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*From:* B. Alexander [mailto:stor...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:18 AM
*To:* General list for user discussion,questions and support
*Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up whole linux system
Hi Flavio,
If I am honest, I only back up critical files on the system (/boot
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=backuppcx=0y=0#/?p=163
Hope it helps
Cheers
Pedro
On Tuesday 28 September 2010 19:54:41 Boniforti Flavio wrote:
Hello people.
I need
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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Carl Soderstrom
Systems
Hello people.
I need to back up my Debian server, which mainly acts as a gateway
(iptables) and proxy (squid). I¹d like to back it up in a way that should
enable me to recover the whole system onto a new harddisk drive, if the
actual one would fail.
Is backupPC right for this purpose, or would it
Hi Flavio,
I realy think backuppc isn't the best choice, see
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/limitations.html. I've used fsarchiver
to this pourpose and, if it's needed, you can use backuppc in order to back
up files which are modified frequently, as configuration files.
Best Regards,
Hi Flavio,
If I am honest, I only back up critical files on the system (/boot,
/lib/modules, /home, /root, /etc, /usr/local, etc) using backuppc, because I
can regenerate a Debian base install without packages in about 15 minutes,
and with a relatively small package list like is generally on a
