[ale] Online Backup

[Yu, Jerry]

I do this type of backups for all my linux servers and all full/partial
recoveries/replications have been succesful these many years. Also, I
normally gzip/gpg them before piping to the backup server, to reduce network
load and to reduce backup media usage.

As for exclusion, I use a file to list files/directories. "-X
list2exclude.txt" at the end of the tar command.

Note that the wildcard thingy for /proc. Tar will exclude everything under
/proc/ and still covers the mount point of /proc itself.
---cut---list2exclude.txt----cut--
./proc/*
./usr/share/doc
./usr/share/man
./usr/share/info/*.*
./dev/log
./you/got/the/idea
---cut---list2exclude.txt----cut--



# -----Original Message-----
# From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
# Geoffrey
# Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:40 AM
# To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
# Subject: Re: [ale] Online Backup
# 
# 
# Nick Travis wrote:
# > Is there a way to create a full system backup, simular to a ghost
# > image, of a linux server remotely without taking the server 
# offline? 
# > Could you do something like "tar -cf my-system.tar * "?  Or 
# would this
# > fail due to files changing as the tar was being created.  
# Could rsync
# > be used, I was thinking it would have to same problem of files
# > changing though while it was syncing.  It's a pretty basic 
# system, no
# > databases or anything, just dhcp named and a firewall.
# 
# You could do this, but be a bit more selective.  For example, 
# you don't 
# want to pick up everything in /proc, the tar file will grow 
# without end. 
#   As for /proc, I've found you're good if you simply pick up the 
# directories there.
# 
# You could be even more selective and reduce the size of the backup. 
# There's plenty of stuff out there you don't generally need to backup 
# like the system binaries.
# 
# -- 
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