Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 10:52:53 -0600 From: Eric Zimmerman <heli@mikestammer.com> To: David Banning <david+dated+1210521964.abd0fb@skytracker.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestion on a backup utility Message-ID: <48208CE5.2040902@mikestammer.com> In-Reply-To: <20080506160602.GA27098@skytracker.ca> References: <20080506160602.GA27098@skytracker.ca>
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David Banning wrote: > I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. > If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which > directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip > the files into a directory - if it has off-site ftp, fine, but I can > do that part myself via crontab. > > I realize I could just make a script file with some tar commands, > but I'm looking for something that is quicker to maintain and > allows me to organize what I'm backing up. > > I have been using reoback but recently I ran into some problems > with is duplicating files X 10! - I looked into to solving it but > it might be easier to just try something else. flexbackup is pretty decent. i used it for a while before i just went to using dump on entire file systems.
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