| rayz0r | I could probably just delete all the portage and index files and then just install everything else I need manually, right? |
| _AxS_ | mmiller: yeah do that |
| flamesrock | nope, should I? |
| _AxS_ | mmiller: altho its 2.3.6-r5 that i see is the newest 2.3 glibc |
| AllenJB | flamesrock: Try it as root please, just the last command I gave you |
| _AxS_ | mmiller: just chance the mask to >=sys-libs/glibc-2.4 |
| mmiller | _AxS_: yeah I have 2.3.3 |
| _AxS_ | mmiller: and you should be ok |
| flamesrock | ls: cannot access /usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge: No such file or directory |
| _AxS_ | flamesrock: what filesystem do you have? |
| flamesrock | simfs its on a VPS |
| _AxS_ | ..is there even an fsck for simfs? |
| AllenJB | flamesrock: It looks to me like emerge has got wiped off your system. It should be in the location specified in the last command |
| mmiller | _AxS_: I should keep my chost set to i486 as well? |
| flamesrock | hmmmmm so the fs corrupted? |
| Catball | Does anyone have any idea of how to take an Ext3 file system and all the contents on it and back them up somewhere remotely? Like to another Linux box somewhere on the net? Because If possible, I wish to make a totally working backup of Gentoo Linux, and put it onto one of my other boxes for safe keeping. |
| mmiller | _AxS_: Or should I try building with i686 with the the chost change instructions? |
| _AxS_ | mmiller: no i think you can do the chost change -- follow the guide from the beginning and you should be ok. |
| Catball | I am a computer-person who enjoys being risky, and just in case I break my machine later on I want to have a backup. |
| _AxS_ | mmiller: you can remove those masks after you've changed the chost |
| grknight | Catball, you can either tar/gzip or use a sparse file |
| Fieldy | Catball: i would suggest rsync over ssh |
| Catball | My box is quite slow with doing a full install of Gentoo, perhaps it's time I purchased a new machine. Either that, or my net connection is laggy. |
| grknight | or that |
| _AxS_ | Catball: tar, rsync, dd -- tons of ways to do this.. rsync is probably most efficient |
| Catball | But I've seen operations on installing Gentoo take a day before. LOL |
| mmiller | _AxS_: Thanks |
| _AxS_ | mmiller: np, gl |
| Catball | BTW |
| Fieldy | Catball: rsync is very good at preserving permissions, uids:gids, special file types and so on. the first transfer to the remote host would be a full copy (painful if over a WAN), but future transfers would delete what has disappeared, and send what is new, and update everything else, and be quite fast. Catball: then in the worst case if you needed all that data again, you just yank it back down again with rsync over ssh. |
| AllenJB | flamesrock: I'd say that's a distinct possibility in this case. It's unusual for files to just "go missing" |
| flamesrock | ahh thanks AllenJB |
| Catball | can anyone have a recommendation on weather or not I should run an FTP server under Gentoo Linux? Or would an rsync server be much easyer to manage? I don't know how trusted FTP is, and I do not trust standard ftp, over port 21, most of the stuff is sent out as clear text anyways. |
| flamesrock | I'll contact my VPS host and tell them |
| Fieldy | speaking of backups my desktop machine (where i back up a laptop and a server to) has been off for a few days. |
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| Fieldy | Catball: ftp is completely insecure and not well suited to backups like this. an rsync server would suit you well, but by default there is no encryption. if you just use rsync over ssh, no server is needed, just somewhere that you can connect to with SSH |