From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 20:54:18 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 D583716A402 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 20:54:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F9D13C46A for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 20:54:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f31so622439pyh for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 13:54:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=JT2Dl1kvDPyL0BgZxKOMCNqHH9plR/9KtwiVh8SyrTv5g2Q6oOnFjgE2ljQPzurvC+dA8ikljXdthrdVV9IVdfhwvUYgHchHB8yYVovzujH/0I44yHxrJpC8w+v/t11gSrMIxnz0Nmiy3XteNQ25hMiNmUvFlsMWfpVk9R8PHmY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=LKpZTPzUkygQChhVdEdv09DJajP3QBGH3uUGLjHMhJ87xJ3EehCmIpqJh4AN3pIqYwbRNXA7LCBdzq0zufsZIipW9IDPCzfBl6KE8bw9xhYoM6OHvXB5CqVAnt7vtZEJnSuH5H92T6qo8YK7rQaW/5JcInRRd05vjz3ItTpTyNI= Received: by 10.78.149.13 with SMTP id w13mr3021385hud.1179348857049; Wed, 16 May 2007 13:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.17.18 with HTTP; Wed, 16 May 2007 13:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 13:54:16 -0700 From: "Jeff Mohler" To: "youshi10@u.washington.edu" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20070516202735.GB97410@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best remote backup method? 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 20:54:19 -0000 Is there a free NDMP tool for Freebsd? On 5/16/07, youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: > > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > >> I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb > drive > >> located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD > boxes.) > >> After the recent discussion about dump, I'm wondering if I would gain > >> anything by using dump rather than rsync. Has anyone used both? Any > >> thoughts as to which is "better" and why? > >> > >> The rsync command I use is: > >> rsync -avz ${LOCALDIR} -e "ssh -i ${KEY}" ${REMOTEHOST}:${REMOTEDIR} > > > > With dumps it is easier to keep different ones around. If you rsync a > > directory, all previous changes are lost. If you rsync to a different > > directory every time to keep different versions, you might as well use > > tar, because rsync won't save a lot of space/time in that case. And dump > > will backup all ufs2 features such as flags and acls. I'm not sure if > > rsync can manage that. It's also easy to compress dumps, which can save > > a lot of space. > > Tar is expensive time-wise anyhow after a while if you use compression. > > Also, rsync does diffs on files, which can become expensive in terms of > time. > > -Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >