Best remote backup method?

Paul Schmehl pauls at utdallas.edu
Wed May 16 18:38:14 UTC 2007


I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive 
located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD boxes.) 
After the recent discussion about dump, I'm wondering if I would gain 
anything by using dump rather than rsync.  Has anyone used both?  Any 
thoughts as to which is "better" and why?

The rsync command I use is:
rsync -avz ${LOCALDIR} -e "ssh -i ${KEY}" ${REMOTEHOST}:${REMOTEDIR}

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Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


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