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Hi all,

I have a question regarding system backups. Is there any way to do it manually using MCC tools?
I took a look at MCC/System/Snapshots, but it doesn't seem to backup anything itself - as far as I can see from the MCC's logs, it just changes something in cron, configuring automatic backups I guess.
I'd like to backup the whole system just for case and I don't want to perform scheduled automatic backups.
I know that Snapshots uses rsync as a backend, so very likely grsync (with root privileges?) can do the job, but I'd like to know if I could do the same but easily from MCC?

Thank you.

zugunder wrote:I'd like to backup the whole system just for case and I don't want to perform scheduled automatic backups.

Then I would suggest Clonezilla. http://clonezilla.org

Zugunder,
Have you taken a look at the topic: "Create a backup of my installation with all applications ins" ?

Thanks guys, i was just curious if I could do a system backup using built-in Mageia options... I remember, in Mandriva 2008 or so (quite a long ago, yes) this function was OK, i.e. I used to do (on-demand) backups using tools from MCC, without cron, just manually... and now for some reason this function is not available.

Snapshots with Mandriva was easy, but froze my system on the second try.
I had used Mandriva for years, then got a nice 320 gig backup drive and the
Snapshot froze. Then went to reboot and got a curious error lnusertemp failed
temporary directory fail.

After several attempts to fix the system, it just got worse. I was at least able
to login for awhile in guest. However, the more I attempted to fix the 100%
memory full. It just got worse. So today I installed Mageia after some difficulty
with installation ( I had to constantly hit enter to keep it going ).

I had so much on the hard drive, and only was able to retrieve part of it. Too
bad, but I was sticking with either Mandriva or Mageia. I had had Ubuntu in
the past an others, but Mandriva had seemed solid.

What have you folks found as the safest backup tool with Mageia.
I've used many before without fail like Bacula, but boy the Snapshot feature
messed me up bad.

Patrick

zugunder wrote:Hi all,

I have a question regarding system backups. Is there any way to do it manually using MCC tools?
I took a look at MCC/System/Snapshots, but it doesn't seem to backup anything itself - as far as I can see from the MCC's logs, it just changes something in cron, configuring automatic backups I guess.
I'd like to backup the whole system just for case and I don't want to perform scheduled automatic backups.
I know that Snapshots uses rsync as a backend, so very likely grsync (with root privileges?) can do the job, but I'd like to know if I could do the same but easily from MCC?

Thank you.

zugunder wrote:Thanks guys, i was just curious if I could do a system backup using built-in Mageia options... I remember, in Mandriva 2008 or so (quite a long ago, yes) this function was OK, i.e. I used to do (on-demand) backups using tools from MCC, without cron, just manually... and now for some reason this function is not available.

For me it is not all that complicated to have directories saved for a backup.
The only parts of the system, that really count are /home and /etc, and maybe other directories for other users.
And while this scheme is just quite simple, i can easily handle this through grsync, which can be installed through MCC.

I've used mondorescue for years. http://www.mondorescue.org/

It can restore to bare metal, or just a file. I haven't installed it on Mageia yet since I just installed Mageia a couple of days ago.

I have downloaded Lucky Backup and am using that now, but I understand what you mean. If you have your home/etc directories your
usually in good shape.

isadora wrote:

zugunder wrote:Thanks guys, i was just curious if I could do a system backup using built-in Mageia options... I remember, in Mandriva 2008 or so (quite a long ago, yes) this function was OK, i.e. I used to do (on-demand) backups using tools from MCC, without cron, just manually... and now for some reason this function is not available.

For me it is not all that complicated to have directories saved for a backup.
The only parts of the system, that really count are /home and /etc, and maybe other directories for other users.
And while this scheme is just quite simple, i can easily handle this through grsync, which can be installed through MCC.

The above posts are from 2011. Now 2015, the Snapshot option in MCC is still the same and useless.
One must go in /etc/rsnapshot.conf and do it manually which is not at all good for a novice in linux.
MCC is one of the strong pillars of Mageia and it should be perfect.

Well, where's your bugreport, or a patch to fix this issue?

doktor5000 wrote:Well, where's your bugreport, or a patch to fix this issue?

Hehe ok dok, I'll see what I can do