On 09 Apr 07, at 14:39, I wrote: > I'm a little late to this party, but here's what I use. rsync over > ssh is great because it's differential, which means I've been able to > keep a multi-deca-gigabyte GIS archive backed up even over a 128Kbps > ISDN connection. (The initial backup was conducted via a USB hard > drive that was shipped using a courier, but subsequent differential > backups over the net finish overnight.) This solution will not > compress the backed-up files, so you'll use just as much disk space > on the target as they take up on the source.
Also, this isn't a good way to back up a running database. You'll want to first run a database dump and then backup the dump files. (But you probably know that already. :) ) -G _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
