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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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