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Date:      Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:25:44 +0100
From:      Andrew Cid <andrew@accid.net>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump
Message-ID:  <20080404192543.GA14425@farnborough.darq.net>
In-Reply-To: <4E73E577666CE823A7212C54@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
References:  <4E73E577666CE823A7212C54@utd65257.utdallas.edu>

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Hey,

> I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it 
> will work.  I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is 
> doing this successfully and would like to share their cmdline.

Are doing backups to disk?  I find rsync combined with hard links to be
quite efficient and easy to manage/restore.  Checkout Mike Rubel's
article [1] if you haven't seen it already, he explains it well.  I
find Rsnapshot [2] quite useful/easy for small installations.  There is
also Dirvish [3] which might be worth looking at.  Both use the same
concept.

Hope this helps,


Andrew. 

[1] http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
[2] http://rsnapshot.org/
[3] http://www.dirvish.org/
-- 
andrew@accid.net



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