Re: Backup solutions

From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 11/17/05

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    Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:28:27 -0600
To: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com>

    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 

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