Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 21:40:11 +0400 From: "Artem Koutchine" <matrix@chat.ru> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Backup tools/strategy Message-ID: <018701bfd883$17255060$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>
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Hi! I am trying to select the right backup tool for backin up my filesystem. As I understand i have a choice of dump, tar, cpio. TAR and CPIO also need some sort of external logic, wich will determine what file to backup. Dump is good (accroding to what man says), but has a very bad feature - i cannot browse the archive visually (say, wich midnight commander) and i coould not find a way to make it compress the files it backups. What i need is: 1) A smart backupper which can do incremental backup since given date and have a flexibale setup on what to backup. I backup to another HDD and it is mounted as a filesystem. at least the backupper need to skip the backup filesystem itself 2) A way to visually browse the backup archive and restore seelcted files/directories 3) The backupper MUST compress the backups (better with gzip) My stategy is: 1 full backup every sunday morning, incremental each day since the last incremental. I have 4GB system disk with a lot of very important data and hosting clients and 17GB backup disk. Backup drive is unmounted after the backup. I also do media tests on the backup drive, industrial UPS installed (invertor), so i am pretty sure that everything should be fine Any suggestions on the software or should i write it myself? Artem matrix@chat.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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