On 30 Jan 2013 at 22:33, Raf Roger wrote: Date sent: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:33:22 +0100 Subject: best backup solution From: Raf Roger <raf.news@xxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi, > > coming from microsoft windows world, i would like to know what is the > best backup solution/tool under linux. I'm aware of simple backup > suite and fwbackups, however i would like to understand the phylosophy > behind Linux backup. > > under windows we used to backup the complete partition with files also > store in it. this is the simplest method. > > However under linux, till now i found only how to backup > files...nothing about partition. could you explain me how linux people > understand backup ? should we only backup user's files and settings ? > how to you backup a webserver for example ? this is not a simple item > and it is not only user's files. thx > There are a number of options. G4L, G4U, Clonezilla and others. I've been the maintainer of G4L since about 2004, and it does partition and disk images of linux, windows, and other OS's. It can run from CD, or Flash, or even directly from the grub boot menu. Couple weeks ago, had a power surge that fried a switch and a power supply in a server that scambled its disk. Disk was fine, but had to restore a recent image, and got it back up quickly. A combination of the disk/parition and file level backups is probable best, and also snap shots with LVM. G4L is build on my Fedora machines, but does use kernel.org built kernels from source. > -- > Alain > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 17 x64 > MySQL 5.5.28 > Apache 2.4.3 / OpenSSL 1.0.1c > Tomcat 7.17 > PHP 5.4.8 +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 13768034.676374 | EINSTEIN 9822169.539852 ROSETTA 5920448.115952 | ABC 15810816.891880 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
