On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:53:00 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> > mount --bind / /mnt/root
> > rsync -avx /mnt/root user@remote.server:/backup/
>
> True, this takes care of the /dev folder problem, but there's a
> downside: if you have for example /var on a different partition, it
> won't get bac
>> I did the very same recently when reformatting my system partition for
>> a new FS. Beware though that after this command you still need to
>> create some device files in /dev for udev to work properly, because
>> they were excluded. I think it was null and console, but I'm not sure.
>
> mount
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:26:52 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > rsync -av --delete --delete-excluded \
> > --exclude=/dev/ \
> > --exclude=/proc/ \
> > --exclude=/sys/ \
> > --exclude=/tmp/ \
> > --exclude=/usr/portage/ \
> > --exclude=/var/portage/ \
> > --exclude=/v
> I did the very same recently when reformatting my system partition for a new
> FS. Beware though that after this command you still need to create some device
> files in /dev for udev to work properly, because they were excluded. I think
> it was null and console, but I'm not sure.
You are corre
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 09:47:57AM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> > I'm curious what you, collective Gentoo-users, may be using to solve
> > this problem. rsync, rdiff-backup, rsnapshot, dirvish, bacula,
> > tar+ssh...?
>
> rsync -av --delete --delete-excluded \
> --exclude=/dev/ \
>
> I'm curious what you, collective Gentoo-users, may be using to solve
> this problem. rsync, rdiff-backup, rsnapshot, dirvish, bacula,
> tar+ssh...?
rsync -av --delete --delete-excluded \
--exclude=/dev/ \
--exclude=/proc/ \
--exclude=/sys/ \
--exclude=/tmp/ \
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a remote Gentoo virtual server and want to implement a better
> backup/restore plan. There is no physical access to the server, so any
> backup must be done over the Internet. Right now I just create the
> occasional tarball an
Hi,
I have a remote Gentoo virtual server and want to implement a better
backup/restore plan. There is no physical access to the server, so any
backup must be done over the Internet. Right now I just create the
occasional tarball and download it, and have used tar+ssh to restore,
but that's not co
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