From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 17:19:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E04910656B3 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 17:19:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8BC8FC12 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 17:19:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 26701 invoked from network); 6 May 2008 16:53:15 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 6 May 2008 16:53:15 -0000 Message-ID: <48208C2C.6070004@chuckr.org> Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 12:49:48 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Banning References: <20080506160602.GA27098@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: <20080506160602.GA27098@skytracker.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestion on a backup utility 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: Tue, 06 May 2008 17:19:56 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Banning wrote: > I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. > If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which > directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip > the files into a directory - if it has off-site ftp, fine, but I can > do that part myself via crontab. > > I realize I could just make a script file with some tar commands, > but I'm looking for something that is quicker to maintain and > allows me to organize what I'm backing up. > > I have been using reoback but recently I ran into some problems > with is duplicating files X 10! - I looked into to solving it but > it might be easier to just try something else. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it seems a bit silly to me to waste any time backing up something that you can completely duplicate rather quickly via cvsup, anytime you want, error free. Maybe you're talking about saving work directories, something like that? Must be something I'm not seeing here .... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIIIwsz62J6PPcoOkRAtrlAJ4krL4BQ3HS/5GDqkS5tDCQYI8yNwCgoz7d Ds10FrtAw1Brvb4xDYqVS7o= =78xP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----