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Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 18:04:45 +0200
From: Christoph Sold <cs@cheasy.de>
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alexus wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I need to perform a daily backup of some of directories, what would be a
> best way to approach this? I would probably need to restore some of it ...
> every now and then. Any suggestions are very welcome.

For tape backups, amanda ( http://www.amanda.org/ ) is the way to go. 
For file histories, CVS, rsync, RCS, and others will do. All of them are 
in the ports or in the base system.

HTH
-Christoph Sold


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