backup

Matt Juszczak matt at atopia.net
Fri May 13 13:12:19 PDT 2005


Problem with this is that I have to then create a tar file on the remote 
machine, because if I login with sftp from my remote machine, that account 
wont have access to read all the files it needs to read.

-Matt

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Hexren wrote:

>> Howdy,
>
>> 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.)
>
>> Thanks!
>
>> Regards,
>
>> Matt
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Imho if possible a remote location should be the backup site as that
> gives you a backup even if the Server is destroyed by *insert
> something nasty here* pull the backup from your homemaschine and you
> need not worry about dynamic ips.
>
> Regards
> Hexren
>
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