Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:27:06 +0100 From: Koen Martens <fbsd@metro.cx> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup methodes Message-ID: <4370EDFA.9070500@metro.cx> In-Reply-To: <20051108161053.GA38553@voi.aagh.net> References: <436FD8B3.8060808@csilva.org> <20051108161053.GA38553@voi.aagh.net>
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Thomas Hurst wrote: > * Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man| (full-disclosure@csilva.org) wrote: >>what is the best method to backup network information and local disk >>information with another disk? > > > dump/restore performs snapshotted incremental backups of complete > filesystems. > I've been using dar (http://dar.linux.free.fr/) for a while now and very happy with it. Works on the filesystem level, not on the block device level, and does incremental backups, also of parts of your filesystem and to a remote machine (through ssh for example). Whether it is the best method for you, i can't answer. Koen -- K.F.J. Martens, Sonologic, http://www.sonologic.nl/ Networking, hosting, embedded systems, unix, artificial intelligence. Public PGP key: http://www.metro.cx/pubkey-gmc.asc Wondering about the funny attachment your mail program can't read? Visit http://www.openpgp.org/
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