Clonezilla (GPL) is awesome. The live CD supports backup to network shares as well as transfer over ssh. Kelly ------Original Message------ From: John Lange Sender: roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Open Source Backup/cloning to USB HDD Sent: Oct 27, 2009 2:44 PM
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 14:00 -0500, Montana Quiring wrote:
Hello,
I want to backup a few Fedora serves and I'm wondering what Open Source software people have used and would recommend for taking a snapshot of a the complete system and have it save to an external USB hard drive.
Personally I like "dd" for images.
dd if=/dev/xxx | gzip > backup.img.gz
For file-by-file backups, I like to use the rsync command. E.g.:
rsync -a -H -X -x --delete /home/. /mnt/backup/home/.
It's very quick and copies over only what's changed (based on file modtimes and/or sizes). It also works well over ssh.
On 27/10/2009 2:50 PM, kel@kelweb.ca wrote:
Clonezilla (GPL) is awesome. The live CD supports backup to network shares as well as transfer over ssh. Kelly ------Original Message------ From: John Lange Sender: roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Open Source Backup/cloning to USB HDD Sent: Oct 27, 2009 2:44 PM
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 14:00 -0500, Montana Quiring wrote:
Hello,
I want to backup a few Fedora serves and I'm wondering what Open Source software people have used and would recommend for taking a snapshot of a the complete system and have it save to an external USB hard drive.
Personally I like "dd" for images.
dd if=/dev/xxx | gzip > backup.img.gz
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