> Is there any reason that I should prefer Faubackup to rsync? > Without a good reason to prefer it, it seems that I should go with > what is more general and more widely used.
I'm not at all familiar with Faubackup, but I'm a huge fan of rsync. It's a very flexible piece of file-mirroring software, and tends to be quite efficient at what it does. > P.S. If possible, I'd really like to have the snapshots be compressed. > Does anyone know if either of these tools can be easily configured to do > that. Alternatively, has anyone been able to install and seriously beat > on a compressed filesystem with Red Hat 9.0 and verified that it is > robust. That's something that rsync doesn't do, and because of the protocol that the program uses http://rsync.samba.org/tech_report/node2.html I can see where compression on the target side would present a problem. You can always do the compression on the target side as a separate step, but you'd probably be making a tradeoff in transfer time. Of course, there's the always the totally-cheap-and-dirty approach: ufsdump 0f - /srcdir | ssh remotehost "cd /destdir && gzip -9 > backup.gz" :) -- Steve --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
