transhour

After having a discussion the other day with a friend on the virtues of linux vs windows...the one argument he had that kinda stumped was the backing up linux and using that back up to restore your machine.

the way i did it, was similar to both of these guides here that i will post, but often times, the back ups i had were so far out of date, that it was almost as easy just to reinstall the whole darn operating system, till i met gentoo and let it move in on one of my desktop pc's.

it is a very big pain to have ever restore this OS, so i did a little google search and came up with this bash script:

http://blinkeye.ch/dokuwiki/doku.php/projects/mkstage4

its some what outdated, but if you are using gentoo, i'm sure you can spot the flaws in it and make the changes the beauty of this bash script, setting up a cron job for it... enjoy

http://blinkeye.ch/dokuwiki/doku.php/projects/mkstage4

i'm sure some one more saavy than i am with scripting, can alter this to work any number of Distro's.

but here is a interesting guide i found for all your Ubuntu users, all the steps seem fairly generic, i'm sure they would work on other distro's:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35087

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Very interesting, and also very handy with automatic backups

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transhour

so far it has been useful, i set a cron job for it to back up my gentoo box once a week and the same with my ubuntu box.

it will be nice to have up to date back ups of my OS's again

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You can also just use Clonezilla....

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there is also BackInTime, but i haven't had very much success with it...

thanks for the link. +

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Good find but I dunno, I don't really like the fact that it rewrites every file on every backup. A better backup tool IMO is rsync. It updates the file changes only, and snapshots are easily implemented. I have rsync on an incron job. incron is like cron but instead uses the inotify libraries as the signal so it runs rsync everytime I have a file change. That way I get every file change I make when I'm working on any document.

rsync
inotify

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transhour

wow...lot of options out there

i like the rsync/icron idea, i will have to implement that in my "linux for noobs" doc i am working for a friend of mine .

edit:

i am currently modifying the script, that it will look for an existing back up, if it does, it will add the date to the file name, once i get it working, i will post the changes.

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