Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

Michel Le Cocq Michel.Lecocq at lipn.univ-paris13.fr
Fri Sep 21 08:44:21 PDT 2007


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Wojciech Puchar a écrit :
> of course, that's why i use rsync, and use cp -lpR to make multiple
> generations on backup server every day. i delete the oldest when
> there are out of space.
>
> but gmirror+ggated/c is a good idea for those having more than 1
> server and gigabit interfaces - do mirrorring spanning different
> machines (like mirror of first on second, mirror of second - on first).
rdiff-backup do all of this and you can also restore a backup of 2
days ago because it also store an history of the backup.

Michel
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