Just a tip as I needed to build binary packages for all the installed packages on a gentoo box:
equery list | cut -d’ ‘ -f3 | while read f; do quickpkg “=${f}”; done
It’s a giant hack, but it gets the job done.
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Packaging An Entire Gentoo System
Friday, July 31st, 2009Rdiff-backup on OS X
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Short and sweet
Download my script to automate rdiff-backup installation on OS X.
Longer version with background
I use rdiff-backup to keep all my systems backed up. Rdiff-backup keeps incremental changes and permission information, and only transmits changes over the network. It’s great for automated remote backups. All my Linux systems backup at least once a night, some several times daily to offsite locations via consumer-class internet connections. The first backup is painful if you have a lot of data, but after that only differences have to go so things are pretty smooth. (more…)