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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Miah Gregory <miah@???> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 09:22 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
>
>> Seems like most people only back up data and configuration though.
>
> I back up the entire disk image personally, the change set between
> backups is generally zero for system binaries etc, plus it provides a
> useful audit tool should any box get hacked.
>
> It also means when restoring that I don't need to worry about whether or
> not the box will restore into a working state or not due to package
> updates or config/running state stored in non-standard locations.
>
> Just my 2p though, I tend to be overly zealous about these things. :)
>
Hey, I don't think it's overly zealous at all.
This is what I would like, but I thought it would put an overhead on
the service provided for everyone if everyone backed up using this
approach.
I'm intrigued as to how you're doing this :-) Are you dd'ing
partitions or something? O.o
Cheers, Gerald
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Hi,
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 02:14:21PM +0100, Gerald Davies wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Miah Gregory <miah@???> wrote:
> > I back up the entire disk image personally [=E2=80=A6]
[=E2=80=A6]
> This is what I would like, but I thought it would put an overhead on
> the service provided for everyone if everyone backed up using this
> approach.
At the moment the only metric we're charging by for the backups is
the dis