Re: Backup solutions

From: Vaida Bogdan (vaida.bogdan_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/17/05

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    Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:51:10 +0000
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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 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.
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