From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 03:24:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E321065674 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:24:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (dc.cis.okstate.edu [139.78.103.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D04B98FC1B for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:24:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (localhost.cis.okstate.edu [127.0.0.1]) by dc.cis.okstate.edu (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0S3NvFw063547 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:23:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Message-Id: <200901280323.n0S3NvFw063547@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <63545.1233113037.1@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:23:57 -0600 From: Martin McCormick Subject: Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System 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, 28 Jan 2009 03:24:09 -0000 Greg Larkin writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > It doesn't use tar, but I've had great luck with rsnapshot > (http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/rsnapshot/ - > http://www.rsnapshot.org/) for backing up multiple RedHat Linux and > FreeBSD servers to a central server over SSH. Thanks to each of you. I have actually experimented once with rsync and I appreciate knowing about rsnapshot. I think one of these plus dump may serve us well. Again, thanks for your help. Martin McCormick