[Lvlug] Debian Backups

[Benjamin Long]

On Saturday 09 December 2006 11:09 am, Caleb Shay wrote:
> On 12/9/06, Darryl Gibson <n2diy at losch.net> wrote:
> > Now I'm comfortable with Ubuntu, and I want to start a regular back up
> > schedule.
> >
> > So, how do you folks back up your boxes?
>
> For a full backup:
>
> tar zpc / | ssh user at backuphost "cat - > /backups/host1-`date`.tgz"
>
> For daily backups of just the files I care about (say, my home directory)
>
> rsnapshot - http://www.rsnapshot.org/
>
> However, most of my machines are virtual machines these days, so I just use
> esXpress (yes, I work for them, yes, I wrote a lot of it).  You can think
> of it as the ability to do (while the machine is up):
>
> dd if=/dev/sda | <filter out just the changed blocks> | gzip | ftp
> backuphost (save file)
>
> After all of these methods, I've got a DLT drive hooked up to backuphost
> for pulling the files off as needed.
>
> Caleb

Caleb,

	Is there something like esXpress for Vmware Server? All my servers have been 
moved over to virtual machines and something like that would be most useful.

Benjamin Long