Re: remote backups: SCP or RSYNC or -?

phn_at_icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:24:13 +0000 (UTC)

Martin <nospam@example.org> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good tool for backing up remote servers? The servers
> already run SSH, so SCP does almost all I need. I do like the sound of
> RSYNC's ability to maintain mirrors, but don't want to install something
> that would require additional open server ports on my LANs, so a more
> intelligent version of the SCP client would be ideal. Any thoughts?

How about dump piped through ssh ? Or my favorite : dump to sfs-mounted filesystems ?
In both cases restore -i will enable me to easily browse through and
recover individual files and dump will give me full and incremental
backups at will. sfs will make the recovery dramatically easier though. 

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