Re: Tarsnap and full freebsd server backup

[Matthias Hörmann <mhoermann@gmail.com>]

Hello

I would recommend to put them into a separate archive
because you might want to delete old versions of these before you
delete old versions of your home, etc,... Otherwise you are basically
paying to store your old source and binaries of outdated software.

Matthias Hoermann

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Andy Hilker <ah@hilkeryan.de> wrote:

Hi,

I am thinking of using tarsnap as a simple replacement for amanda.
That means I want to backup the whole freebsd server periodically
and in the case of a crash restore it with the fixit live cd.

Usually dump/restore is recommended for this use case, but what
about tarsnap? Is it possible, are there any caveats?  Does someone
use tarsnap for this and tested a full restore?

Sure, it is possible to use tarsnap just to backup /home, /etc,
/usr/local/etc and install a new system, build all ports again...
but this is not what i want, i really want a full backup.

Best regards,
Andy