From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 07:51:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0840116A41F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:51:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vaida.bogdan@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B2E43D46 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:51:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vaida.bogdan@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so1861606nzo for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:51:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rbuH0RB0TnVaChJNmmIloka+eV/f/sUoasmC61Y/xEWsrzLZHl0S4niFpo5KJ8LyZ796UDEbro8DWFWou2sTdU0ezxt2dWU5kQKgsOkgx4tRdkJBnMQxEKhi77xmGT7Y/2b96tN4cI2KB/zTSSOSClEP7x55hsPUizUaqzKhRlE= Received: by 10.37.12.63 with SMTP id p63mr7341610nzi; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.251.53 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:51:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <12848a3b0511162351q1dfe0d19k68810e349843f2cb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:51:10 +0000 From: Vaida Bogdan To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <57416b300511162006m4cfe53f8n6dc2bccb877a5567@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <57416b300511162006m4cfe53f8n6dc2bccb877a5567@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Backup solutions X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:51:11 -0000 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 wrote: > On 11/17/05, 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" >