Proper backup and restore -- is there a way?

[Marcus Reid]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:44:59PM -0600, W. Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> > bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Reid
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:39 PM
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Proper backup and restore -- is there a way?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to find out the best way to make backups of an Ubuntu machine
> > that allows me to restore to bare metal, boot, and go home. 
> 
> 
> Have you looked at Bacula at all?

I have now :)  It's a full system with all of the baggage and overhead
that comes along with that.  I just want some files that I can use to
restore, and I'd rather do it myself rather than depending on some
software to know how to do the bare-metal restore.

I'd like to retract the snapshot requirement though, as I don't think
there is a way to do snapshots in Linux without getting really nasty
with LVM and I'd rather just back the databases up separately.

Marcus