From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 9:41:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7D637B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE7643E72 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:41:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g77GfVB15582; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:41:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020807114131.02d62db8@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 11:41:31 -0500 To: Michael Grant From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: disk based backup s/w Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200208071626.g77GQne21517@splat.grant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:26 PM 8.7.2002 +0200, Michael Grant wrote: >>>I'm looking for something to backup my files to a spare disk. But not >>>just something like dump/restore that globs all the files into one >>>large file (a virtual tape). And not just a cpdup to the spare disk >>>either. >>> >>>I'd like to find something that's a bit more intelligent, something >>>which lets me easily get at older versions of files or restore an >>>entire file system. Something which doesn't store multiple copies of >>>the same file and which uses compression and maybe even encryption. >>> >>>If I can't find anything suitable, I may just start an open source >>>project to do something like this. >>> >>>Michael Grant >>> >>Then I suppose you would look at "tar" (base system) or "gtar" ( from ports >>good for bigger than 2GB files).... > >Jack, tar is most definitely a solution which produces a tape archive >(hence the name tar: Tape ARchiver). As I said, this is definitly not >what I'm looking for. > >How can I make this more clear? I'm searching for something has the >following qualities: > >1) The backed up files on the backup disk are accessible individually >(as in I don't have to hunt through a tarball) > >2) Several versions of the backed up file will exist like incremental >backups. > >3) Compressed, maybe encrypted > >4) Support for restoring an entire filesystem with things like >devices, pipes, and in it. > >So far, in my searching, I have found something named storebackup on >sourceforge.net which is a set of perlscripts. It handles only >regular files, but it's in the right direction. I'd like to find >something like this but more complete. > Tar is not limited to TAPEs... using the -f switch allows backups to "f"iles too.... I use it for backups to HDs.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message