Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:26:59 -0800 From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20040102172714.507A371B6@sierra.rtfm.com>
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I'm finally getting to the point where my disk capacity massively outruns my tape capacity, so I'm thinking of converting to removable disk-only backup. I could just use Amanda to backup to disk, but I'm intrigued by Plan 9's archival filesystem where backups from (say Jan 1, 1999) would go in /1999/1/1 and you could just find the files directly rather than grovelling through dump files. Is there some standard tool for doing this on FreeBSD? You can't just do a direct copy cause this results in major disk space wastage so I'm imagining you need to use hard links or something to keep the size down. Thanks, -Ekr
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