I have used adhoc scripts that do nightly backups of my important files. I zip up critical directories into huge tarballs – not too pretty but gets the job done.
\nI wanted to back up an entire linux system so it could be easily recreated, and decided it was time to get a little more sophisticated. Enter [rdiff-backup]. I’m emerging it now, but it’s requiring several updates. For one, it’s new kernel time, and there are a few new options to choose when using [make oldconfig]. I went with defaults, as usual, for every option that provided one. I had to pick these though:<\/p>\n
Kernel compression mode: 1. Gzip\r\nRCU Subsystem: 1. Classic RCU<\/code><\/pre>\nThen I had to add FUSE to the kernel and emerge [ntfs-3g], so I could mount my external drive and back up to it.<\/p>\n
[make menuconfig]: File systems->[x] FUSE (and rebuild and install kernel of course)\r\nemerge -Davu sys-fs\/fuse ntfs-3g<\/code><\/pre>\nThen I emerged rdiff-backup, and ran the following:<\/p>\n
rdiff-backup --exclude-other-filesystems --exclude-special-files -v5 --exclude \/home\/me\/backup \/ \/mnt\/external_drive\/backup\/machinename<\/code><\/pre>\nAnd away we go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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