I just simply take and once a month scheduled (or if any major change is made or about to be made) and simply boot a gentoo livecd, mount the drives I want to backup then simply tar compress recursively from/, then cp it to hdb1.
If anything goes wrong I simply repeat the steps however I extract them to/mnt/gentoo with corresponding mount points mounted. chroot/mnt/gentoo/bin/bash;env-update;source/etc/profile; grub-install #to rewrite the mbr reboot.... hasn't failed me yet.
Bottom line is it's easy to backup, save, and restore. I'm thinking about patening this method as "last known good configuration", or "system restore" seems like the thing to do since microsoft has been patening all the *nix technologies as their own lately.
http://www.dameware.com/ [www.dameware.com]
If you are in a Windows environment it can push to any client machine the neccesary software allowing you to connect to users on the fly as well as servers etc. Which is great because all you need is the controller software to do this.
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I just simply take and once a month scheduled (or if any major change is made or about to be made) and simply boot a gentoo livecd, mount the drives I want to backup then simply tar compress recursively from /, then cp it to hdb1.
/mnt/gentoo with corresponding mount points mounted. chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash;env-update;source /etc/profile; grub-install #to rewrite the mbr reboot.... hasn't failed me yet.
If anything goes wrong I simply repeat the steps however I extract them to
Bottom line is it's easy to backup, save, and restore. I'm thinking about patening this method as "last known good configuration", or "system restore" seems like the thing to do since microsoft has been patening all the *nix technologies as their own lately.
http://www.dameware.com/ [www.dameware.com] If you are in a Windows environment it can push to any client machine the neccesary software allowing you to connect to users on the fly as well as servers etc. Which is great because all you need is the controller software to do this.