On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 10:30 -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Simon Dick wrote: > > > Anyone got any ideas on how I can relatively quickly backup a raq 550 > > onto a seperate machine apart from using the commercial backup programs? > > I've been trying cmuExport but the speed is quite awful for regular > > backups. > > I've used a combination of dump and ssh. Dump isn't native under linux, > but you can find it -- ironically /etc/fstab still has fields that are > only used by it. > > tar, piped to stdout which then goes over ssh is another option.
Fair enough, I was just starting to look into backing up config via cmuExport and then rsyncing data to a seperate server, will check out those ideas too and see which works best for me. Thanks -- Simon Dick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Cobaltfacts site list [email protected] http://list.cobaltfacts.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/cobaltfacts
