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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:21:19 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backups
Message-ID:  <442D9D4F.2000800@fer.hr>
In-Reply-To: <BKEEIELDKGBIGNAKFNKKCEIBDCAA.brian@icecomms.ie>
References:  <BKEEIELDKGBIGNAKFNKKCEIBDCAA.brian@icecomms.ie>

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Brian Doherty wrote:

> I have built a redundant freeBSD box for my mail server, and for my
> webserver, and am putting the redundant boxes in a different geographic
> location. I am looking for a way to backup the relevant data on the current
> mail and webservers to the new redundant boxes every night. I could use scp
> and do a full backup every night but I remember hearing of a piece of bsd
> software that can compare the two file systems and just copy the changes.
> This would dramatically cut down on the traffic across the link between the
> machines.

You can try rsync (http://rsync.samba.org/) or rdiff-backup 
(http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/)



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