OFF TOPIC Windows Backup

[Justin Bennett]

Thats a good thought, I could share the d drive on the windows server 
and do an smbmount on another server to backup the files.

Thanks

Erek Dyskant wrote:

>Depending upon how often you intend to restore individual files from
>backup, I would consider using rsync and/or rsnapshot to do the daily
>backups.  This way you could use standard filesystem tools to restore
>files rather than having to use tar.
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>If you do incremental rsnapshot backups, it would probably use about the
>same amount of space as non-incremental tar.gz files.
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>Regards,
>Erek
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>>a similar situation. The scsi mirror will help with a hardware failure 
>>but not a software one. In my situation, I'm just thinking of using tar 
>>in a cron to backup some smb shares. Since the data is the critical 
>>thing and not the OS stuff, that'll work for me. Instead of getting all 
>>incremental too, I just create like folders for different days of the 
>>week, then do full tars to each folder respective of the day of the 
>>week, this way I have full backups with a week of tolerance, plenty of 
>>time to catch something. With the cost of hard drives today, space is 
>>cheap. Not the prettiest most well thought out plan but it works.
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