rsync daemon works really well. What happens when you execute the rsync
daemon?
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Donald E Haselwood <dhaselwood@verizon.net>
wrote:
> What is a good way to backup the entire linux system?
>
> I've googled backing up and tried various variations of the following, all
> with no success:
> Suse 10.3's Yast backup
> cp -a
> rsync -a
> tar -cfz
>
> I got an external 500GB drive, and set up three partitions: one for mac,
> fat
> for win, ext3 for linux.
>
> I've tried so many things that I can't present a concise problem, though
> the
> most common one seems to be running out of disk space. ('umount'ing all
> partitions except the source & destination solved one problem.)
>
> Very time consuming "experiments", i.e. hours per trial.
>
> I was wondering how Slug'ers are doing system backups (and of course the
> next
> step is recovery, but that comes later).
>
> Don
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