Backup solutions

[Vaida Bogdan]

Also try duplicity: http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/features.html
- does encrypted incremental backups using rdiff and ssh (or ftp)

On 11/17/05, Peter Clutton <peterclutton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/05, mike at lanline.com <mike at 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.
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