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?

I wouldn't do DD images. Too inflexible.

I do backups using rsnapshot, which basically just makes a copy with
rsync of all the files on all the filesystems.

> Any improvements?.

Dump dd.

Michael

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