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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: KMail
From:       Kevin Kempter <kevink () consistentstate ! com>
Date:       2010-02-25 3:27:38
Message-ID: 201002242027.38227.kevink () consistentstate ! com
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> On 02/25/2010 07:15 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 February 2010 20:15:48 Kevin Kempter wrote:
> >> I never (ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever...) run any updates
> >> (no matter how insignificant they seem) without first running an rsync
> >> of my system  to a backup directory. It's pretty fast given that it's a
> >> diff and in the inevitable case of occasional problems I can rsync my
> >> system back to a perfect "before I ran the updates" state if needed.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I agree. I just posted on this thread that I do an image before applying
> > any updates.
> >
> > I'm wondering...when you rsync back (if you have problems with
> > updates)...do you switch to single-user mode or boot off from CD in order
> > to execute rsync?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Jorge
> 
> @Jorge :
> The process seems to be great, can you please document the whole thing
> of backing up.
> 


See my scripts attached 

I have them all staged in a directory /stage/rsync and I run 'em as root

The rsync_backup script runs rsync from each directory in the dirlist file and 
sync's it into /stage/backup.  I skip directories such as /dev,  /media, /mnt 
and sys 


In the case of a restore I run rsync_restore.sh in single user mode

The rsync_restore does the reverse for all directories except for /home since 
in most cases I dont want or need to restore my /home dir 


["rsync_backup.sh" (application/x-shellscript)]

#!/bin/bash

for I in `cat dirlist`
do
	echo "[$I]"
	echo "=========="
	rsync -avXA --delete /${I} /stage/backup
done

["rsync_restore.sh" (application/x-shellscript)]

#!/bin/bash

for I in `cat dirlist2`
do
	echo "[$I]"
	echo "=========="
	# rsync -avXA --delete /stage/base_backup/${I} /
	rsync -avXA --delete /stage/backup/${I} /
done

["dirlist" (text/plain)]

bin
boot
etc
home
lib
lib64
lost+found
opt
root
sbin
selinux
srv
tmp
usr
var

["dirlist2" (text/plain)]

bin
boot
etc
lib
lib64
lost+found
misc
net
opt
root
sbin
selinux
srv
tmp
usr
var


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