How To Backup Your Funtoo With SystemRescueCD - Revision history

Drobbins at 04:22, 6 December 2012

2012-12-06T04:22:13Z

24.200.143.35: /* French version */

2012-12-03T01:38:18Z

‎French version

Fearedbliss: /* The TAR method */

2012-07-14T21:43:46Z

‎The TAR method

Ezee: /* The TAR method */

2011-07-21T19:04:51Z

‎The TAR method

Ezee at 19:02, 21 July 2011

2011-07-21T19:02:24Z

Ezee: /* The TAR method */

2011-07-21T18:37:44Z

‎The TAR method

Tintamarre: remove duplicate title and make nicer links to funtoo-quebec

2011-02-24T15:01:05Z

remove duplicate title and make nicer links to funtoo-quebec

D2 racing at 14:07, 18 January 2011

2011-01-18T14:07:23Z

D2 racing: /* The Rsync method + daily snapshot */

2010-11-11T04:16:04Z

‎The Rsync method + daily snapshot

D2 racing: /* The Rsync method + daily snapshot */

2010-11-11T04:15:16Z

‎The Rsync method + daily snapshot

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 * TAR
 * Rsync
 * Rsync + daily snapshot
 == Why backup your box ==

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 If you want the French version, you can go here :
-* [[funtoo-quebec:Sauvegarde_Rsync_avec_SystemRescueCD|Sauvegarde Rsync avec SystemRescueCD]] at funtoo-quebec.
+* [https://gentooquebec.org/gwiki/index.php/Sauvegarde_Rsync_avec_Btrfs_et_SystemRescueCD Sauvegarde BTRFS avec rsync et SystemRescueCd ]  at Gentoo Québec.
-* [[funtoo-quebec:Sauvegarde_stage5_avec_SystemRescueCD|Sauvegarde stage5 avec SystemRescueCD]] at funtoo-quebec.
+* [https://www.funtoo-quebec.org/wiki/index.php/Sauvegarde_Rsync_avec_SystemRescueCD Sauvegarde avec rsync et SystemRescueCD]  at Funtoo Québec.
 [[Category:HOWTO]]

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 . cd /mnt/rescue/
-time tar xvjpf stage5F20101026.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/funtoo/
+. time tar xvjpf stage5F20101026.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/funtoo/
 . cd /

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 . cd /mnt/funtoo
 . time tar -cvvjpf /mnt/backup/stage5F20101026.tar.bz2 .  (note the ' . ' at the end of the line is required, same as ' * ')
-. time bzip2 -tv /mnt/backup/stage5F20101026.tar.bz2
+. time bzip2 -tv /mnt/backup/stage5F20101026.tar.bz2 (this compresses the .tar created in the previous step.  Skip if compression is not needed)
 . cd /
 . umount /mnt/funtoo/boot /mnt/funtoo /mnt/backup

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 . cd /mnt/funtoo
-. time tar -cvvjpf /mnt/backup/stage5F20101026.tar.bz2 .
+. time tar -cvvjpf /mnt/backup/stage5F20101026.tar.bz2 .  (note the ' . ' at the end of the line is required, same as ' * ')
 . time bzip2 -tv /mnt/backup/stage5F20101026.tar.bz2
 . cd /

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 . Boot from the LiveCD
 . mkdir /mnt/funtoo
-. mkdir /mnt/backup
+. mkdir /mnt/backup (this mountpoint may already exist if using a newer version of SystemRescueCD)
 . mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/funtoo
 . mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/funtoo/boot

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 With this little Wiki, you will be able to backup your Funtoo box in no time.
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 If you want the French version, you can go here :
-[[funtoo-quebec:Sauvegarde_Rsync_avec_SystemRescueCD]]
+* [[funtoo-quebec:Sauvegarde_Rsync_avec_SystemRescueCD|Sauvegarde Rsync avec SystemRescueCD]] at funtoo-quebec.
+* [[funtoo-quebec:Sauvegarde_stage5_avec_SystemRescueCD|Sauvegarde stage5 avec SystemRescueCD]] at funtoo-quebec.
 [[funtoo-quebec:Sauvegarde_stage5_avec_SystemRescueCD]]
 [[Category:HOWTO]]

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 == Why using Tar or Rsync ==
-One of the main reasons I use Rsync, it's because it's fast and you can make a snapshot in no time.
+One of the main reasons we should use Rsync, it's because it's fast and you can make a snapshot in no time.
 There's also a cool stuff about rsync is that you can hardlink your daily snapshot to your current rsync backup and it will save a lot of backup space.
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 In that case, your daily snapshot will only use the space of your diff from that day.
-I also recommend Tar, because since it's an archive, you can burn it or move it inside an another partition or even on a USB stick. You can use Bzip2 or LZMA to compress your archive too.
+We also recommend Tar, because since it's an archive, you can burn it or move it inside an another partition or even on a USB stick. You can use Bzip2 or LZMA to compress your archive too.
 == The TAR method ==
-First, when I backup my box, I always use SystemRescueCD because I don't want to backup my system when it's running.
+First, when we you want to backup your box, we should always use SystemRescueCD because you don't want to backup your system when it's running.
-To do so, I use this method to backup :
+To do so, you can use this method to backup :
 This is the famous Stage 5.
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 </pre>
-I use this method to restore :
+You use this method to restore :
 <pre>
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 == The Rsync method ==
-I use this method to backup :
+When you want to backup :
 <pre>
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 </pre>
-I use this method to restore :
+When you want to restore :
 <pre>
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 == The Rsync method + daily snapshot ==
-I use this method to backup :
+When you want to backup :
 <pre>
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 </pre>
-I use this method to restore :
+When you want to restore :
 <pre>

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 . mount /dev/sda10 /mnt/rescue
-. time rsync -aHA --del --force --stats --progress /mnt/rescue/funtoo/snap-20101026/ /mnt/funtoo
+. time rsync -aHA --del --force --stats --progress /mnt/rescue/snap-20101026/ /mnt/funtoo
 . cd /mnt/funtoo