From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 18:19:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C0F916A400 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 18:19:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scuba@centroin.com.br) Received: from raptor.centroin.com (asmtp.centroin.com [64.251.27.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0010613C44B for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 18:18:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scuba@centroin.com.br) Received: from trex.centroin.com.br (trex.centroin.com.br [200.225.63.134]) (authenticated bits=0) by raptor.centroin.com (8.14.1/8.13.6/CIP SMTP HOST) with ESMTP id l4GIJ4L1054751; Wed, 16 May 2007 15:19:16 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from scuba@centroin.com.br) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 15:18:57 -0300 (BRT) From: scuba@centroin.com.br Sender: mpsouza@trex.centroin.com.br To: Phusion In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20070516151608.N79771@trex.centroin.com.br> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up large partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 18:19:00 -0000 Hi, On Tue, 15 May 2007, Phusion wrote: |I need some advice on how to backup a UNIX server. The server has |multiple large partitions ranging from 200 to 400 GB. Also, the server |doesn't have a tape drive. We recently got a large NAS device that has |2 TB of storage space. The UNIX server has Samba installed and can be |setup to mount a Windows network share. I would like the ability to |run full and incremental backups as well as restores. Let me know what |you think. Take a look at rsnapshot (it's in ports), it uses rsync with hardlinks to decrease the size of incremental backups. - Marcelo