On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:44 PM, David <dcorraly@(protected):
>
> 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?.
>
> Thanks in advance
>

See my recent (over the weekend) thread entitled "tar a brand new
Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?"

about using tar to save a brand new system.

In that thread one person pointed me toward this page:

http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/GNU/Linux_System_Backup_Script_(stage4)

which I tried out. It seemed to work OK for me. I had to edit jsut a
coupl eof lines to work with my setup
but other than that I got a number of backups created. Not too difficult.

- Mark
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