Le 27/02/2012 20:54, michael@actrix.gen.nz
If I want to minimise down time, I can use rsync to prepare the way by copying the live system to the destination. I'd then drop down
the software I copied i better suited to backup system partitions. mu own system partition are usually 20Bb, with less than 10Gb oused (on desktops, less than 3Gb on servers), so the downtime to back them up is around 30 minutes. The rest of the backuop can often be done on the running machine. I don't run any very intensively working server though (no big database). Backing a large database needs other tools is the base always have writes jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org