Courtesy of [Do-It-Yourself Backup System Using Rsync][1].
Written by Kevin Korb as a presentation for GOLUG Presented 2010-03-02
When you run rsync you will tell it to backup the live file system into a new empty directory and to look to the previous backup for files that have already been backed up. Whenever rsync finds a new
| # One liner | |
| wget --recursive --page-requisites --adjust-extension --span-hosts --convert-links --restrict-file-names=windows --domains yoursite.com --no-parent yoursite.com | |
| # Explained | |
| wget \ | |
| --recursive \ # Download the whole site. | |
| --page-requisites \ # Get all assets/elements (CSS/JS/images). | |
| --adjust-extension \ # Save files with .html on the end. | |
| --span-hosts \ # Include necessary assets from offsite as well. | |
| --convert-links \ # Update links to still work in the static version. |
LVM snapshots are logical volumes that reflect the state of the snapshoted volume at the exact moment in time the snapshot was created. Useful for backups and reference points we can revert back to.
$ sudo lvcreate --size 5G --snapshot --name root-backup /dev/vg0/root
Logical volume "root-backup" created.