From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 17:42:16 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 AA97D1065672 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 17:42:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from mho-01-bos.mailhop.org (mho-01-bos.mailhop.org [63.208.196.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE858FC1B for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 17:42:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from [207.67.145.176] (helo=[192.168.11.2]) by mho-01-bos.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JtQQ0-000OAC-IC; Tue, 06 May 2008 16:53:33 +0000 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 207.67.145.176 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/ZXZTrqeEo/YK7KoZ61L3bgCz3EHL+fpU= Message-ID: <48208CE5.2040902@mikestammer.com> Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 10:52:53 -0600 From: Eric Zimmerman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Banning References: <20080506160602.GA27098@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: <20080506160602.GA27098@skytracker.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 17:42:16 -0000 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. flexbackup is pretty decent. i used it for a while before i just went to using dump on entire file systems.