backup

Tim Aslat tim at spyderweb.com.au
Thu May 12 18:19:06 PDT 2005


On Thu, 12 May 2005 21:05:35 -0400 (EDT)
Matt Juszczak <matt at atopia.net> wrote:
> My server has an 18 gig drive in it. I'm looking to do incremental
> backups  every night, where my entire /ext partition will be mirrored
> elsewhere  (/ext is the only thing with anything special on it that
> would need to be  recreated).
> 
> I was thinking of either backing up to my home machine, which for the
> most  part has a static IP (dynamic every 3-4 months), or getting an
> external  hard drive.  The server is a 1U.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions, both for how to do this, and what
> kind  of media to use?  (External hard drive, tape drive, remote
> backup to my  home machine, etc.)

I currently backup a 80Gb partition via my office DSL link using a
script based around rsync (/usr/ports/net/rsync).  it's one of the most
brilliant programs around for this kind of thing.

A quick search on google.com should provide examples of other people's
scripts & solutions.

Cheers

Tim


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