From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 23:24:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1385A1065721 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:24:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: from mho-02-bos.mailhop.org (mho-02-bos.mailhop.org [63.208.196.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6BAA8FC13 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:24:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: from vdsl-151-118-132-54.dnvr.qwest.net ([151.118.132.54] helo=mail.mikestammer.com) by mho-02-bos.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1LT1rP-000Izc-7w; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:29:15 +0000 Received: from mikestammer.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8D8B876; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:28:22 -0700 (MST) Received: from 67.166.123.99 (SquirrelMail authenticated user eric@mikestammer.com) by mikestammer.com with HTTP; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:28:22 -0700 (MST) X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 151.118.132.54 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/1dHXzlV3ny3qJz/p1L2khECsj5uSMFAY= Message-ID: <61874.67.166.123.99.1233350902.squirrel@mikestammer.com> In-Reply-To: <229610.47419.qm@web51408.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <229610.47419.qm@web51408.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:28:22 -0700 (MST) From: "Eric Zimmerman" To: drcubi@yahoo.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab) 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: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:24:43 -0000 On Fri, January 30, 2009 11:37 am, drcubi@yahoo.com wrote: > I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD > AMD64 Rel. 7.0 > I am following process described here for rsync : > http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html > You should check out the rsnapshot port. it does what you are looking for and more. It will save you a lot of scripting, etc and it works great. I have been using it as part of my backup procedure for a while now and it works well. Eric