Backups

Richard Hubbard hubbardr at adelphia.net
Wed Mar 2 18:39:25 EST 2005


In the last meeting, a similar question came up.

Bob is a fan of dump and restore, basically because everything 
understands the formats and they work (plus they are there in almost 
every distribution)

Depending on what you are backing up, tar works fine.
rsync is an option. i haven't done it, but here is a link to an article 
which elaborates on the 'across the network' that you are talking about:
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/10951_1573881_1

hope this helps...

Joe wrote:

> While you're looking into backups, check out the rsync command.  It's 
> fast and can be set up to back up only what has changed from the last 
> backup.
>
> Joe
>
> Frank Kumro wrote:
>
>> Im sure this topic has been discussed many times but I cannot find any
>> of the old emails. I am looking for a backup solution for my linux
>> machine. An extra machine is available so I would like to do backups
>> and have them stored on that networked machine. Does anyone do this
>> already and would like to share their wisdom?
>>  
>>
>



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