From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 18:27:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D26EA16A433 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:27:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from SRS0=UQFCEU+g=ZH=metro.cx=fbsd@sonologic.nl) Received: from mx1.sonologic.nl (mx1.sonologic.nl [82.94.245.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D753343D68 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:27:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from SRS0=UQFCEU+g=ZH=metro.cx=fbsd@sonologic.nl) Received: from [192.168.4.156] ([212.41.157.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by mx1.sonologic.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA8IR4aq039624 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:27:08 GMT Message-ID: <4370EDFA.9070500@metro.cx> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:27:06 +0100 From: Koen Martens Organization: Sonologic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Thunderbird/1.0.2 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <436FD8B3.8060808@csilva.org> <20051108161053.GA38553@voi.aagh.net> In-Reply-To: <20051108161053.GA38553@voi.aagh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Helo-Milter-Authen: gmc@sonologic.nl, fbsd@metro.cx, mx1 Received-SPF: pass (mx1.sonologic.nl: 212.41.157.237 is authenticated by a trusted mechanism) Subject: Re: Backup methodes X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:27:21 -0000 Thomas Hurst wrote: > * Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man| (full-disclosure@csilva.org) wrote: >>what is the best method to backup network information and local disk >>information with another disk? > > > dump/restore performs snapshotted incremental backups of complete > filesystems. > I've been using dar (http://dar.linux.free.fr/) for a while now and very happy with it. Works on the filesystem level, not on the block device level, and does incremental backups, also of parts of your filesystem and to a remote machine (through ssh for example). Whether it is the best method for you, i can't answer. Koen -- K.F.J. Martens, Sonologic, http://www.sonologic.nl/ Networking, hosting, embedded systems, unix, artificial intelligence. Public PGP key: http://www.metro.cx/pubkey-gmc.asc Wondering about the funny attachment your mail program can't read? Visit http://www.openpgp.org/