pkg prime-list would give you that. As for the OS or configuration, you want to backup /boot/loader.conf, /etc/rc.conf, /etc/sysctl.conf and relevant configuration files in /usr/local/etc/. Then you also want to include your /usr/home home directories. zfs-send(8) creates a filestream of the dataset. You can redirect this to a file, backup that file on some other media. It can be restored using zfs-receive(8).
But will this method back-up the state of the applications? eg would a Chromium instance on original setup with all it's tabs/logins open be backed up to work the same way on the backup
Does this back-up everything at once or is this some kind of incremental backup ?
What options are usually the best?
How does one check which files are relevant? given a system that's been running for a couple of years.
You're backing up files, not the state of the memory. Configuration of chromium is stored in your home directory. Which is something you definitely want to backup.
That's up to you. Both are possible.
You configured it, so I would hope you also recorded somewhere what and how you configured it. I can't tell you what you did, so can't tell you exactly which files. But you could just backup the entire /usr/local/etc/ directory for good measure.
What is the difference between
pkg prime and pkg query -e '%a = 0' %o | awk -F '/' '{print $2}' | sort?
I take note of pkg prime-list that I didn't know , thank you.
#!/usr/bin/env sh
_bkp_loc="$HOME/bkp"
_sys_conf_loc1="/etc"
_sys_conf_loc2="/usr/local/etc"
_sys_bkp_conf_loc="$_bkp_loc$_sys_conf_loc1"
_sys_bkp_conf_loc2="$_bkp_loc$_sys_conf_loc2"
_home_conf="${HOME}/.config"
_home_local="${HOME}/.local"
_home_bkp="${_bkp_loc}/home/beastie"
bkp_sys(){
pkg prime-list > "${_bkp_loc}"/pkg_list.txt
cp -a -f -v /boot/loader.conf "${_bkp_loc}"/boot/.
cp -a -f -v "${_sys_conf_loc1}"/profile "${_sys_bkp_conf_loc}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${_sys_conf_loc1}"/devfs.conf "${_sys_bkp_conf_loc}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${_sys_conf_loc1}"/devfs.rules "${_sys_bkp_conf_loc}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${_sys_conf_loc1}"/rc.conf "${_sys_bkp_conf_loc}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${_sys_conf_loc1}"/sysctl.conf "${_sys_bkp_conf_loc}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${_sys_conf_loc1}"/fstab "${_sys_bkp_conf_loc}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${_sys_conf_loc1}"/motd.template "${_sys_bkp_conf_loc}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${_sys_conf_loc2}"/doas.conf "${_sys_bkp_conf_loc2}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${_sys_conf_loc2}"/openvpn "${_sys_bkp_conf_loc2}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${_sys_conf_loc2}"/X11 "${_sys_bkp_conf_loc2}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${_sys_conf_loc2}"/smartd.conf "${_sys_bkp_conf_loc2}"/.
doas cp -a -f -v "${_sys_conf_loc2}"/polkit-1/rules.d/xfce.rules "${_sys_bkp_conf_loc2}"/polkit-1/rules.d/.
}
bkp_home(){
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/.beastie "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/.cshrc "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/.cwmrc "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/.fehbg "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/.login_conf "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/.tcshrc "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/.zshrc "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/.welcome "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/.Xdefaults "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/.xinitrc "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/xinitrc-xfce "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/xinitrcwm "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${HOME}"/.moc "${_home_bkp}"/.
cp -a -f -v "${_home_conf}"/dunst "${_home_bkp}"/config/.
cp -a -f -v "${_home_conf}"/fish "${_home_bkp}"/config/.
cp -a -f -v "${_home_conf}"/nano "${_home_bkp}"/config/.
cp -a -f -v "${_home_conf}"/pcmanfm "${_home_bkp}"/config/.
cp -a -f -v "${_home_conf}"/qt5ct "${_home_bkp}"/config/.
cp -a -f -v "${_home_conf}"/xfe "${_home_bkp}"/config/.
cp -a -f -v "${_home_local}"/bin "${_home_bkp}"/dot-local/.
}
bkp_sys && bkp_home && echo "Done!" && exit 0#!/usr/bin/env sh
cd ~/bkp
git add *
printf '%s\n' 'Commit message?'
read _m
git commit -m "${_m}"
git push origin main
exit 0#!/usr/bin/env bash
_date=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
_disk_dest="/zmedia/zbkp/zhome"
_bkp_dest="$_disk_dest/$_date"
mkdir "${_bkp_dest}"
bkp_files(){
_dirs=("bkp" "Desktop" "Documents" "Downloads" "Monero" "Music" "Pictures" "Public" "Templates" "tmp" "Videos")
cd "$_bkp_dest"
for d in "${_dirs[@]}"; do
echo "Copying $HOME/$d to $_bkp_dest/$d.tar.lz4"
tar --use-compress-program=lz4 -cf "$d".tar.lz4 "$HOME"/"$d"
done
cd
}
bkp_files && echo "Done!" && exit 0
rsnapshot).Recently I had an unexpected power failure happened with some physical server.
rsync -c -n / rsync://remotebackup/Just to rsync all files to another HDD or remote storage (excluding apparently temporary and extralarge like snapshots).
#Copy directory hierarchy / to /mnt/root
cd / ; pax -p eme -X -rw . /mnt/root
#Copy from local to remote
cd /; pax -w -X . | ssh root@hostname "cd /mnt/root && pax -r -v -p eme"
#Copy from remote to current local directory
ssh root@hostname "cd /mnt/a && pax -w -X . " | pax -r -v -p eme#!/bin/sh
date_now=`date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M"`
rsync -Hav --exclude-from=/root/bin/backup.exclude --numeric-ids --bwlimit=400 --log-file=/var/log/backup-${date_now} --password-file=/root/bin/backup.rsyncpwd / backup@127.0.0.1::backup/
#--delete is required for mirroring hierarchy but doublecheck a name and content of the target directoryBeside the already named: If you use f.e. something like rsync for your backup (as I do among other tools) take care of the file system of your backup drive; The often used combination "NAS & Samba" won't take care of your file permissions (a NAS for unix backups should IMO at least offer the ext* file system and SSH as well as NFS); Instead by using something like "tar" will preserve file permissions even on a FAT file system, but won't be as comfortable when it comes to restore your data.
For me there's nothing related to the source filesystem.
Just for the sake of correctness, dump(8) actually supports nodump flag, see -h option and chflags(1).
I need that for files/directories I write. For keeping remote copies of
You can just export entire ZFS Boot Environment to a file and you have entire system secured.
# beadm list
BE Active Mountpoint Space Created
13.1 NR / 33.4G 2023-01-10 16:55
13.1.safe - - 2.1G 2023-01-20 17:09
# beadm export 13.1 | xz -9 > 13.1.BE.xz# xz -c -d 13.1.BE.xz | beadm import 13.1.RESTORE
# beadm list
BE Active Mountpoint Space Created
13.1 NR / 33.4G 2023-01-10 16:55
13.1.safe - - 2.1G 2023-01-20 17:09
13.1.RESTORE - - 31.2G 2023-02-06 18:15
# beadm activate 13.1.RESTORE# xz -c -d 13.1.BE.xz | beadm import 13.1.RESTORE
# beadm activate 13.1.RESTORE
# reboot