Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:28:27 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, "mike@lanline.com" <mike@lanline.com> Subject: Re: Backup solutions Message-ID: <437C776B.6000705@centtech.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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Peter Clutton 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 and >>I was wondering what the general consensus was on backups. I was either >>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. rsync handles sparse files just fine. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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