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Originally Posted by Albright
One thing I'm clueless about and having a surprisingly difficult time getting a consistent answer about is the most foolproof way to back it up remotely.
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Because there is no good answer which will work for everybody. That is way
there are so many different ways to accomplish things in Unix.
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Originally Posted by Albright
What I'm hoping for is a method whereby I can pull the entire system's contents into an archive on my Mac at work, and then if things go bad, I can just push the backup back onto the server, reboot the virtual machine and be up and running again. Is that just a fantasy?
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No it is not. That can be accomplished with something as simple as
tar-ing directories you want to back up and transferring them to your
Mac laptop with sftp/scp.
You can combine sftp/scp also with dump/restore, pax, cpio, or gtar.
You can use more complicated solutions like rsync, Amanda or Bacula.
You can even use CVS, Subversion, or Mercurial to accomplish back ups.
So the first step would be to ask what you want to accomplish, what kind of files you need to back up (Mercurial is fantastic for backing up PF rules) and how robust/complicated solution you need to use.
I personally would go with as simple as possible for the specific task I am
trying to accomplish.