From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 23 02:47:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBEF16A403 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:47:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDFE43D46 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:47:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 8352 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2006 12:46:59 +1000 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO localhost) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 23 Oct 2006 12:46:59 +1000 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:46:55 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: Wojciech Puchar Message-ID: <20061023124655.40608a5e@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20061022213937.K11854@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <1b6a9c1b5cb2.1b5cb21b6a9c@reyrey.net> <80f4f2b20610221232m192b7d3di7b0ccefce22cd57f@mail.gmail.com> <20061022213937.K11854@chylonia.3miasto.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jim Stapleton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up SOHO server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:47:01 -0000 On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:44:13 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > incremental dumps are most important to me, nothing else really works that > way, while gtar is said to ;) Other alternatives: - use Bacula for a full fledged backup solution, - taking the image of the drives containing the OS is definitely a good idea. - rdiff-backup - it's actually REALLY good for incremental backups . I'm using it with 6GB+ encrypted drives and the saving is quite good (though calculating the binary difference takes a while). There's a web interface to manage it remotely,etc. quite nice. _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." Mae West I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.