+++ David [gentoo-user] [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:44:46PM +0200]:
>
> Hi,
>
>   I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not
> interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root
> filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and
> rsync to keep it updated. How do you make your backups?
> Any improvements?.
I've used bacula in the past to do backups. It's very full featured but
also rather complicated for simple backups.

These days I use an rsync-based backup script I wrote called 'yarbs' (yet
another rsync backup system).

It uses rsync and hard links to keep X days of backups. Easy to use, easy
to recover from, easy to setup. I can make it available if anyone's
interested.

If you're using 'dd' does that mean you're copying the entire filesystem
and not just the files? I believe that can run you into some issues if the
FS isn't read-only...

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