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programmer11
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 Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 10:01 am Post subject: New installation & few questions |
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Hey, Ive installed Gentoo and I have to say that Im really amazed with its spped and stability.
I have some questions here:
1. I have 2 servers (both running Gentoo; physical machine; call it BCK and PROD; there are in different DCs) and I want to make backups of PROD and store it on BCK. How this is to e done?
2. Is there equivalent of apt local cache dir? does portage have sth alike?
3. How often is Gentoo updated?
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C5ace
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 11:09 am Post subject: Re: New installation & few questions |
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| programmer11 wrote: | Hey, Ive installed Gentoo and I have to say that Im really amazed with its spped and stability.
I have some questions here:
1. I have 2 servers (both running Gentoo; physical machine; call it BCK and PROD; there are in different DCs) and I want to make backups of PROD and store it on BCK. How this is to e done?
2. Is there equivalent of apt local cache dir? does portage have sth alike?
3. How often is Gentoo updated?
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I have a similar situation doing a hourly backing up IMAP mail from a mail server to a desktop by rsync.
The Gentoo portage tree is updated every 10 minutes. I update once a day using a small script. |
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Astronome
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: New installation & few questions |
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| programmer11 wrote: |
1. I have 2 servers (both running Gentoo; physical machine; call it BCK and PROD; there are in different DCs) and I want to make backups of PROD and store it on BCK. How this is to e done?
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There are many ways this can be done. Here's one that I've used: https://github.com/TheChymera/mkstage4
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2. Is there equivalent of apt local cache dir? does portage have sth alike?
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Sources are normally stored in /usr/portage. Tarballs go in /usr/portage/distfiles.
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3. How often is Gentoo updated?
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Gentoo is a rolling distribution, so it's continually updated. |
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