Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:20:40 -0500 From: Steve Ames <steve@energistic.com> To: ray@redshift.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man| <full-disclosure@csilva.org> Subject: Re: Backup methodes Message-ID: <20051107232040.GA31849@energistic.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20051107150725.00b025f8@pop.redshift.com> References: <436FD8B3.8060808@csilva.org> <3.0.1.32.20051107150725.00b025f8@pop.redshift.com>
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I've used rsync if your goal is to keep a backup reasonably up to date since you don't need to recopy all of the data at every backup. On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:07:25PM -0800, ray@redshift.com wrote: > At 10:44 PM 11/7/2005 +0000, Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man| wrote: > | Hi, > | > | what is the best method to backup network information and local disk > | information with another disk? > | > | regards, > | > | carlos silva, > > Depends on how much info and if you can take the machine out of production. For > most stuff, I use tar -czf or something along those lines (e.g. to move > directories or backup important information on servers). If you have a 120GB > hard drive you need to make an exact copy of, I usually pull it from the machine > (if it's not in production) and use a diskology IDE cloner to make an exact backup. > > Another method is to stick a 300GB or 400GB drive into a USB enclosure and then > just plug that in and copy data that you need. > > You can also use tape drives, although I've never been a big fan of them myself. > Not with hard drives so cheap. Yet another option is to use a DVD burner and > back up 4 or 8GB's a time to something you can store off site. > > Anyway, hope that helps a bit :) > > Ray > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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