Take a snapshot of a linode
As I am starting to host more and more business critical applications on my linode I recently decided that I need a more robust backup plan than my current one.
My current backup plan is to download a copy of everything to my local computer when I remember. There are times when I have not done this for a few weeks due to one thing or another.
I do like the idea of taking a 'snapshot' of the system at certain times by cron, and storing them in a separate location or two, but am under the impression that you can not take a reliable snapshot from inside a running machine, if at all.
If there are any pointers, gotchas or other issues that anyone could help me with when taking a full system backup then it would be helpful.
I do know about the Linode backup facility but I am in Dallas, not Newark, so I can not take advantage of that yet. When it is rolled out to Dallas I will consider getting it.
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For my website stuff I using rsync between 2 of my servers to back each others data up… so assuming they dont both die at the same time I should be ok
I currently use a cron script which stops MySQL, and backs up everything (except /dev, /tmp, /sys and /proc) using rsync to
