[nflug] backups on an nfs server ..on and on

Darin Perusich Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com
Wed Aug 9 07:38:42 EDT 2006


if this is for home use do you really need full backups or do you only
care about the changes? why not just use rsync and you'll have a mirror
of your home directory on the remote server instead.

eric wrote:
> Cool, my server works great and it's really easy to recover files
> ....then I discover that my home dir is 60 gb and my network server has
> only 170 gb of space, definitly not enough room for a mon-fri bkup.
> 
> Isn't their a way (through tar) to delta files like in SCCS? Is it
> called increment?

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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
darinper at cognigencorp.com
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