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  almereyda

  backup

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  Linux Setup Backup General

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  • --preserve-permissions
  • always store owner information numericly
  • don't preserve atimes unless you know what you are doing
  • maintain link integrity
  • selecting a backup program that supports sparse files
  • FIFO's, named pipes, block devices
  • /sys, /proc, /lost+found, /media
  • /mnt,
  • If shutting down such software before the backup is not an option, schedule jobs which periodicly dump the data of the database

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  djroze

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  pacific 909

  I use the following command...dar --execute "par2 c -r5 \"%p/%b.%n.par2\" \"%p/%b.%n.%e\"" --alter=atime --empty-dir \                --fs-root / --noconf --create ARCHIVE_NAME --slice 620M --first-slice 600M -z6 \                -an -Z "*.ogg" -Z "*.avi"

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  Describes in extreme detail what you need to know and watch out for when backing up a (live) Unix(-like) system, like Linux.
  

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  Good general information, fairly Linux-specific.

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Page Comments

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  Saman Barghi on 2006-10-13
  How to back up your data on a linux machine.
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  Stuart Maxwell on 2006-10-25
  A nice overview of backup issues & alternatives.

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