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Backup your linux server 2017-04-06 09:47:18 Post No. 59765136
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Which is the preferred method to backup a live linux server that would be best left running, but can be shutdown momentarily if needed?
Rsync? Unmounting & dd'ing? 3'rd party utilities (Filezilla and such)? Good old tar'ing?
What's the best way to make backups on a linux system in general?
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Go away, stupid frogposter.
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>>59765136
I use an rsync of the entire system desu
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>>59765136
rsync is sufficient.
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>>59765147
but posting frogs gathers attention to my post
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bump because I want to know too and that frog really grabbed my attention
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>>59765136
rsync cronjob
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you can rsync/tar/cp a live running system safely
just have to keep in mind that your copy will be what you'd get if the machine was turned off without shutting down
that is, if a program is actively writing to a file, your copy might not be "clean", so if you need backups of those things, you'll need to stop that software or otherwise tell it to close those files while you're backing them up
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sudo rsync -avxS --progress --delete root@********.com:/{boot,} ~/Backups/********.com/
(uses SSH)
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