backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-21 Thread Kevin Kempter
I'm looking for a clean way to backup my laptop in part so before I apply any updates I have a clean backup to revert to if needed. I have a / and /home filesystems in order to backup before I run a set of updates from yum I suspect I need to backup / separately this way I dont need to restore

Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: > I'm looking for a clean way to backup my laptop in part so before I apply > any updates I have a clean backup to revert to if needed. > > I have a / and /home filesystems in order to backup before I run a set of > updates from yum I suspect

Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/22/2008 04:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I wouldn't use dd for backups unless you wanted to restore an exact bit-by-bit image of an entire filesystem. I've found rsync to be very effective, with the important advantage that you can run the backup several times and it will only copy w

Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Jerry Feldman wrote: > I backup our system at work (500GB) using rsync. Our New York office > runs rsync against my backup volume. Over the years I have found rsync > to be a very reliable tool. I just got BackupPC to work on my system, after hours of torture. (Is this the worst documented Linux

Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-23 Thread Mike Cloaked
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Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-23 Thread Mike Cloaked
Sorry the previous file was an old one - this is the correct script http://www.nabble.com/file/p21150355/backall backall -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/backup-of-my---filesystem-tp21117673p21150355.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-23 Thread Mike Chambers
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 11:54 -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > Sorry the previous file was an old one - this is the correct script > http://www.nabble.com/file/p21150355/backall backall So your script backsup what is in the list= line? -- Mike Chambers Fedora Project - Ambassador, Bug Zapper, Test

Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-23 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 13:52 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Jerry Feldman wrote: > > > I backup our system at work (500GB) using rsync. Our New York office > > runs rsync against my backup volume. Over the years I have found rsync > > to be a very reliable tool. > > I just got BackupPC to work on

Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> > I backup our system at work (500GB) using rsync. Our New York office >> > runs rsync against my backup volume. Over the years I have found rsync >> > to be a very reliable tool. >> I just got BackupPC to work on my system, after hours of torture. >> (Is this the worst

Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-23 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 01:01 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > >> > I backup our system at work (500GB) using rsync. Our New York office > >> > runs rsync against my backup volume. Over the years I have found rsync > >> > to be a very reliable tool. > > >> I just got Backu

Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-24 Thread Mike Cloaked
ve to suit your system. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/backup-of-my---filesystem-tp21117673p21156814.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listi

Re: backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-24 Thread Mike Cloaked
e where you want to run a backup is easy to do and each machine can be configured separately by altering the script. I can usually run a backup from around 5 machines in about a quarter of an hour once the system is set up. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/backup-of-my---filesystem