On 02/25/2010 07:15 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 February 2010 20:15:48 Kevin Kempter wrote:
>> I never (ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever...) run any updates
>> (no matter how insignificant they seem) without first running an rsync
>> of my system to a backup directory. It's pretty fast given that it's a
>> diff and in the inevitable case of occasional problems I can rsync my
>> system back to a perfect "before I ran the updates" state if needed.
>
> Hi,
>
> I agree. I just posted on this thread that I do an image before applying
> any updates.
>
> I'm wondering...when you rsync back (if you have problems with
> updates)...do you switch to single-user mode or boot off from CD in order
> to execute rsync?
>
> Best regards,
> Jorge
@Jorge :
The process seems to be great, can you please document the whole thing
of backing up.
See my scripts attached
I have them all staged in a directory /stage/rsync and I run 'em as root
The rsync_backup script runs rsync from each directory in the dirlist file and
sync's it into /stage/backup. I skip directories such as /dev, /media, /mnt
and sys
In the case of a restore I run rsync_restore.sh in single user mode
The rsync_restore does the reverse for all directories except for /home since
in most cases I dont want or need to restore my /home dir