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Date:      Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:51:10 +0000
From:      Vaida Bogdan <vaida.bogdan@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backup solutions
Message-ID:  <12848a3b0511162351q1dfe0d19k68810e349843f2cb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <57416b300511162006m4cfe53f8n6dc2bccb877a5567@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10511161819420.440-100000@mail.lanline.com> <57416b300511162006m4cfe53f8n6dc2bccb877a5567@mail.gmail.com>

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Also try duplicity: http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/features.html
- does encrypted incremental backups using rdiff and ssh (or ftp)

On 11/17/05, Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/05, mike@lanline.com <mike@lanline.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >         I'm looking into several backup options for my site.  We have a
> > mixed (BSDI/FreeBSD/Linux) environment.  We recently got a 2TB server a=
nd
> > I was wondering what the general consensus was on backups.  I was eithe=
r
> > considering writing some custom scripts to just tar, zip, and dump data
>
> FWIW, i have read that by far the best is dump, because of the way it
> deals with the raw data. No need to worry bout files with holes in
> them (with other backup tools, this could mean you may not be able to
> fit the file system back on after backup, if there are core files etc)
> I believe i read this in the O'Rielly text Unix Power Tools, but could
> be wrong. They also referenced an extensive test that was done by
> someone, and gave the link. I will post it if i find it.
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