From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 15:08:58 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 4917A1065674 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 15:08:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfahey@enter.net) Received: from smtp.enter.net (smtp.enter.net [216.193.128.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7418FC1C for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 15:08:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfahey@enter.net) Received: from smtp.enter.net (mmail.enter.net [216.193.128.40]) by smtp.enter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D0ECE2F9; Wed, 7 May 2008 10:49:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [216.193.128.221] (fahey.enter.net [216.193.128.221]) by smtp.enter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188EECE2DC; Wed, 7 May 2008 10:49:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4821C170.9080502@enter.net> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 10:49:20 -0400 From: Mike Fahey Organization: Enter.Net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050401) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Banning References: <20080506160602.GA27098@skytracker.ca> <20080507123728.GA4084@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20080507142512.GA72212@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: <20080507142512.GA72212@skytracker.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Enter.Net Vscan V2.1 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 Reply-To: mfahey@enter.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 15:08:58 -0000 You can do all of this with amanda and simply run your backup from cron. amanda.org David Banning wrote: >>For backing up purposes, I use a number of tools. > > > Thanks Frank for your input. I have chosen for now use Chuck's suggestion, > that being cvsup. The only thing I would like to do is omit certain files > that I don't want backed up - large unimportant files - some cache and > log files. I'll look at your suggestions and see if there is a way > to tweak my backup strategy for the best mix. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"