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Subject: Re: backup strategies
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:49:02 +0100
Csaba Henk <csaba-ml@creo.hu> wrote:

> We plan to set up a backup server.
-- cut --
> 1) What parts are to be backed up? If I backup the whole system, the
> backup disk will get full soon.

incremental backups via a script called from cron sounds good,
you might consider trying rdiff-backup

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/examples.html

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grtjs, albi
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